Best Musical Theatre Quotes

#1. I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

Annaleigh Ashford

#2. As we get older ... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.

Maury Yeston

#3. The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

Harold Prince

#4. I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

Rachael MacFarlane

#5. Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

Ruthie Henshall

#6. I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

Toks Olagundoye

#7. When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.

S.M. Stevens

#8. It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

Julian Ovenden

#9. My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

Ben Aaronovitch

#10. Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

Maury Yeston

#11. My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

Aubrey Peeples

#12. I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.

E. Lockhart

#13. Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?
A: Explaining what that is.

Christy Hall

#14. It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#15. My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

Kelis

#16. I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

A. J. McLean

#17. Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.

Gareth Gates

#18. I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!

Josh Young

#19. I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

Patti LuPone

#20. I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

Brooke Elliott

#21. I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Samantha Barks

#22. I would love to do a play, but I don't know about musical theatre. I've never done anything like that.

Chandra West

#23. I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again someday.

Hayley McFarland

#24. I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

Christopher Walken

#25. I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

John Kander

#26. When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

Jason Mraz

#27. My high school musical did not offer a shirtless Zac Efron but it did provide me with many lessons. I learned that I loved being in a theatre, attending rehearsals, and building sets. I loved listening to the director and groaning about rehearsing choreography

Amy Poehler

#28. In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

Tim Rice

#29. When it all comes true Just the way you planned It's funny but the bells don't ring It's a quiet thing.

Fred Ebb

#30. I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

Gareth Gates

#31. I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

Sheridan Smith

#32. I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

John Gallagher Jr.