Quotes About Broadway Theatre

#1. We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

Arthur Laurents

#2. I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

Ben Vereen

#3. It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

Tom Stoppard

#4. I am a Broadway theatre guy ... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

Jeremy Jordan

#5. Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

James Thurber

#6. I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

Elaine Paige

#7. When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

Kevin Spacey

#8. I have very important phone messages that will be playing Broadway. An evening of my tweets I think is going to be booked into the Golden Theatre.

Douglas Carter Beane

#9. You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart.

Susan Stroman

#10. I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational.

Julianne Moore

#11. Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Mel Torme

#12. I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

Todd English

#13. A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

Erich Bergen

#14. There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.

Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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

Tao Okamoto

#16. I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

Mandy Moore

#17. What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

Bill Robinson

#18. My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'

Laura Osnes

#19. The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but ... there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays ... Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays.

Robert Brustein

#20. I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

Kathleen Turner

#21. I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.

Patrick Macnee

#22. A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

Emilia Clarke

#23. My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Skylar Astin

#24. My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Dennis Christopher

#25. I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.

Bel Powley

#26. I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

Michael Ealy

#27. I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#28. I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.

Douglas Carter Beane

#29. Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

Tony Kushner

#30. It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway ... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

Julie Andrews

#31. American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.

Sascha Radetsky

#32. What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world?

Amber Dawn

#33. Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.

John Travolta

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

Ian Ziering

#35. Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

Fred Melamed

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

Annaleigh Ashford

#37. Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#38. There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.

Edward Albee

#39. My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

Yancy Butler

#40. I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

Lynn Nottage

#41. I remember seeing 'Hairspray' when I was 15, and it is such a luxury to be able to see a Broadway show, and it is so hard to do if you don't live in New York - plus, it can be expensive to go to the theatre all the time, too.

Nikki Blonsky