And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

'Once on This Island' is one of my favorite musicals, so to have the lead in that would be great.

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

Outside football, I like to go to musicals or the theatre. My favourite one is the 'Jersey Boys.'

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

Musicals have long given voice to outsiders and speak of experiences in our culture and environment.

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

My only claim to music is a good sense of rhythm, and I have been in musicals and done some singing.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

I always thought I'd be good at musicals, and it turns out I make up for my lack of skill with enthusiasm.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.

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

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me and my personal life.

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care about.

I kind of grew up on musicals, specifically, for whatever reason. They're something that really attracted me as a child.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

There were no TV musicals until we did Bette Midler 'Gypsy,' and the success of that opened the door for us to do the rest.

I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.

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