Musical Theater Quotes

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.
- Trey Anastasio

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
- Loni Anderson

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
- Michelle Branch

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
- Betty Buckley

I grew up doing musical theater.
- Chris Colfer

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
- Leslie Easterbrook

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
- Zac Efron

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
- Zac Efron

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
- Zac Efron

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
- Carlisle Floyd

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
- Jennifer Garner

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
- Jerry Herman

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
- Anna Kendrick

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
- Nathan Lane

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
- Gretchen Mol

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
- Trevor Nunn

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
- Mandy Patinkin

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
- Kevin Richardson

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
- Carly Simon

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
- Neil Tennant

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
- Neil Tennant

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
- Allison Williams