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My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.
'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
Going to Broadway - then to be invited to the Tonys - I really tap into what that feels like now to fulfill lifetime goals.
I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country.
For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'
I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
When I was growing up in the Isle of Man with ambitions of being a performer, I really wanted to go to see a Broadway show.
Id like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change peoples lives.
Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me.
I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.
I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.
The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.
The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.
My first big show in Denver was 'Ruthless! The Musical.' I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my big break!
I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
A professional music career goes in starts and stops. Around 2000 I was doing a Broadway show and that was some real good energy.
If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too loud.
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.
So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.
I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.
I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals
My mom was always so supportive; she enabled me to pursue my dreams. I danced on Broadway as a kid, and she would never miss a show.
Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.
I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.
If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.
I've dreamt lucidly about how my Broadway debut would go and what that would feel like, but I know that I can't be prepared for that.
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star Trek,' and I can finally say I've done that.
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.