#musicals

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! ↗

— Tom Wopat

#doing #hits #musicals #old #realize

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#berlin #broadway #broadway musicals #composers #drawn

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing. ↗

— Lesley Nicol

#done #i #mean #musicals #thing

I've grown to really love musicals, you know? ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#i #know #love #musicals #really

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us. ↗

— Louise Brown

#famous #favorites #hate #i #like

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. ↗

— Peter Stone

#during #happen #musicals #new #new york

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#i #i wish #kind #make #miss

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. ↗

— John Lithgow

#carousel #darkest #experiences #exuberant #filled

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#emphasis #give #longing #love #melancholy