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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Laura Benanti

Great, Art, American

Musical theatre is my first love.
Laura Benanti

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
Laura Benanti

Write, Musicals

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.
Lucas Grabeel

Life, Person, Wish

I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.
David Cook

Peace, Him, Down

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
Gary Burton

Freedom, Someone, Whatever

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?
Mario Cantone

Done, Down, Two

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
Elaine Paige

Music, Writing, Thought

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.
Elaine Paige

Game, Person, Young

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.
Elaine Paige

Life, Great, Fear

'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.
Elaine Paige

Special, Stage, Prince

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
Eric Idle

Funny, Good, Best

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.
Julia Barr

Act, Actually, Role

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.
David Naughton

Theatre, Familiar

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Anton Seidl

Men, Art, America

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
Anton Seidl

Music, America, Free

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
Tatyana Ali

Play, Theater, Project

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.
Thomas Harrison

Far, Among, Piece

I know that one day I would love to do a musical.
Guillaume Canet

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?
Kevin Johnson

Rock, Trying, Play

I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft.
Kevin Johnson

Play, City, York

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.
Janel Parrish

Love, Music, Spring

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
Janel Parrish

Music, Passion, Play

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.
John Mayall

Time, Memories, Listen

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
John Mayall

Friendship, Care, Different

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.
Swoosie Kurtz

Love, Head, List

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
Alex North

Music, Few, Appreciate

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
Gretchen Mol

School, Thinking, Far

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.
Michael Giles

Together, Different, Between

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
Ennio Morricone

Music, Real, Together

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