American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.
Sascha Radetsky
Related 'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar... LAURA OSNES When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that ki... MARY LOU WILLIAMS Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the s... STEVE SABOL Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend ... ISRAEL HOROVITZ I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and th... CORBIN BERNSEN Radio City Music Hall was at the table. Alvin Ailey, Hubbard Street, the New York City Ballet, Ameri... RICHARD GIBBS How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear ... SONIA RYKIEL It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these ... DEBORAH COX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't kn... KEELEY HAWES Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who... MITCHELL JOACHIM I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music... RICK RUBIN Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel ... DAN STEVENS I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End ... PATRICK MACNEE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work... MICHAEL KORS I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there'... AARON DIEHL Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove... CHUCK EDDY I don't think she has missed a class or rehearsal since the fall [when she joined Ballet Theatre]. JAN DIJKWEL It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music ... BRANDON BOYD I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can drea... MISTY COPELAND If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs,... ZAKK WYLDE I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're n... DAVID GUETTA Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image eng... DARCEY BUSSELL 'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really bi... MISTY COPELAND It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about ... FLEA Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at... VANESSA CARLTON I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools a... CHRISETTE MICHELE Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are loo... MISTY COPELAND Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin... CAT POWER It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a '... BIRDY Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being i... ERIC RIES If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, ther... BECK The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music... JONATHAN GALASSI A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of t... JENA MALONE The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington ... BILLY EICHNER In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you. BILL PAXTON It's one of those roles where you realize why you got into theatre and without sounding too proud, i... CHAD KIMBALL It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialist... GAVIN BRYARS What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready f... ALICE MCDERMOTT It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have w... GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. I... KARL PILKINGTON We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high m... JOSHUA BELL My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like t... DWIGHT YOAKAM In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - ... LEE HALL Clearly, Donald Trump's victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined ... MARINE LE PEN I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling... NAT KING COLE This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,... YANCY BUTLER There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre. ELIZABETH MARVEL When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&... GAIL COLLINS I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, th... STEVE MARTIN 'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rat... LYDIA LEONARD My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym. YUAN YUAN TAN Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have ... PAOLO SORRENTINO I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and f... ROB MARSHALL I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame... BEN MENDELSOHN It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. DAVE BRUBECK Claude Debussy's 'Children's Corner' is a suite with six movements just for piano. A... JON BATISTE I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi... HUNTER HAYES The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are w... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the fi... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. AUSTIN BUTLER Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a... DAVE BRUBECK Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where... JOHNNY RIVERS When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can r... LAURA BRANIGAN It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.&... GEORGE ALLEN While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and ther... GABRIEL LUNA I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That'... JASON MORAN There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced ... AIMEE MANN There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in b... KAREN KAIN My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and ma... SAM SHEPARD When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences,... GERALD CLAYTON There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!... CHARLES HAZLEWOOD I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cr... MICHAEL MOORE I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the... MAGGIE SMITH I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the h... HERSCHEL WALKER I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: T... LAURA BELL BUNDY The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ... WYNTON MARSALIS It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you an... PHILLIP SWEET This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, ... HENRY WARD BEECHER I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi... TONY KUSHNER It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a son... BRENDA RUSSELL Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old. TAJ MAHAL Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form th... WYNTON MARSALIS Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of p... EVAN PETERS I go to a lot of plays. I tend to prefer the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway more than the Broadwa... ELLEN CHENOWETH To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently... SCOTTIE PIPPEN I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper. JOHN HURT Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not... TAYLOR HACKFORD I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin... NINA SIMONE My father's Alfred Newman - born in 1900, child prodigy at the piano, ended up in pit orchestras... THOMAS NEWMAN Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new service... WALT MOSSBERG
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