#musicals

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

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#better place #cares #days #feeling #good

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#awards #comedy #consideration #deserving #drama

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#because #best #dancer #ever #far

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. ↗

— Emma Brockes

#musicals #change

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#establish #first #future #happen #i

I started training for musicals since I was a boy. ↗

— David Hasselhoff

#i #musicals #since #started #training

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#i #musicals #over #primarily #singing

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. ↗

— Stephen King

#directing #musicals #plays #teens #music