Zitat des Tages über Musiktheater / Musical Theater:
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.
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.
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
I am concerned about the musical theater, selfishly, because I love it.
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
I love musical theater because it's live. There is no Auto-Tune. There's no second chance. What you see is what you get. You have to be amazing every night.
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
I believe there's no reason why we couldn't be entering a new age of musical theater if we continue to nurture young talent, take risks, and give them a playing field.
I didn't necessarily set out to be in musical theater, but that's where my path has taken me, and I've been loving and enjoying it ever since.
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.
I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.
Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
Naivete is the real reason I applied to Juilliard. I wanted to study drama and not musical theater because I have a hard time dancing. I only applied there.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.
My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It's just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater.