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I think 'Rent' will run forever.
Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.
I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.
We welcome Donald Trump at 'Hamilton,' absolutely.
I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.
Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.
I got to meet Colm Wilkinson once, and I was ecstatic.
Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.
Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day.
There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.
My love for The Four Tops cannot be expressed greatly enough.
As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.
My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.
As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it.
'Rent' audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.
I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.
Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.
I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.
When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.
If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.
I very rarely go back to do shows again. I'm done once I've learned the lessons I need to learn.
I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.
Oprah's such a wonderful spirit; she's been given a lot of gifts in her life, and she gives them back.
We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.
I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.
The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.
It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.
For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
We have to look honestly at ourselves and recognize the positives, the negatives, and the challenges we can overcome.
I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.
I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.
People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.
We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.
I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of theatrical work.
Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.
Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.
The time for frivolous entertainment has passed. You can be entertained while at the same time learning from and growing with the people around you.
Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.
I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.
Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.
I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.
Oh, yeah - 'The Good Wife' was a lot of fun to do. It was a short scene I did, but Josh Charles was very nice, and Julianna Margulies was so sweet. We had a very good time.
I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.
'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.
I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That's actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.
Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.
Everyone you talk to in the world, whether they know it or not, because the catalog is so vast, a lot of times people have favorite songs that are Motown songs that they didn't even know were Motown songs.
It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.
I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.