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If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.
Art is really more musical than it is visual.
I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.
There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.
I've done a lot of musical theatre, but I equate 'Mr. Cinders' a lot with why I became an actor.
In P7, I played Robin in a musical version of 'Robin Hood' and afterwards DO McLean was standing with mum and dad and he told them that I should go into drama. It is still extraordinary to me that a man in that period would think that that was an option for me.
I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.
If I could do a sort of comical musical, that would be everything!
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.
I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.
If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.
Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.
The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for 'Swing Lo Magellan' had ended and I didn't really know what else to do. I didn't know what music I would write. I just did work for other people - arranging, producing, writing - and all of that seemed to be in L.A.
I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.
I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.
I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'
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