I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

I couldn't be more excited about doing 'Kinky Boots' on Broadway; it's going to be a delicious challenge!

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

I really hope for more Broadway. I didn't think I was going to love it this much. I would love to stay here.

Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.

Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

One of the boring tricks about capturing Broadway onscreen, actually, is just about all the different unions.

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!

When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it's a much shorter process.

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

I did 'Eubie!' on Broadway with the Hines brothers, 'Comin' Uptown' with Gregory Hines, and then 'Hairspray.'

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

When you're on Broadway, what's kind of the whole point is that you find something new in the show each night.

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

I've been really, really fortunate to get some fantastic opportunities on Broadway, and I cherish all of them.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.

'The Little Mermaid' is my favorite of the Disney animated features. And, I could not wait to see it on Broadway.

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

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