Phillipa Soo quote: "The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that my job as an actor is also that of a detective, archaeologist, and mystery solver."

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ERIC SCHAEFFER

I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows...
MEGAN MULLALLY

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting...
JOSH YOUNG

I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitel...
SEBASTIAN STAN

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of...
TAO OKAMOTO

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious ch...
TAMARA TUNIE

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done ...
PETER STONE

I just wasn't interested in going to New York, my interest wasn't TV or film. It was always the stag...
CINDY GENZANO

We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing...
KELLI O'HARA

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk ab...
LAURIE ANDERSON

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.
CASEY NICHOLAW

I grew up with those MGM musicals, so I have an idea what I like from a musical. It helped to read a...
STEPHEN FREARS

Our season will include dramas, classics, comedies and musicals. We'll also develop new works and pr...
JOYCE GERBER

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

'All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as th...
TRAVIE MCCOY

I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
MARK INDELICATO

I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching a...
JACOB ARTIST

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. A...
MATISYAHU

I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I&...
ROBERT LOPEZ

For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian...
JACK O'BRIEN

It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am ...
DAVID LEVITHAN

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I...
JOSS WHEDON

I've done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn't have my parents footing the bill ...
MICHAEL KELLY

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.
LIZ CALLAWAY

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively...
SAMANTHA BEE

I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people...
BRANDON STANTON

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
ALAIN RESNAIS

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don'...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I co...
RUDY GIULIANI

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so wh...
BILLY CHILDISH

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialog...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musica...
MARSHA NORMAN

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at h...
RACHEL TUCKER

I like musicals that look more like plays.
ALEX TIMBERS

I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
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I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on ...
CARRIE COON

In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York....
ZACH MCGOWAN

I think I'm a straight actor who occasionally does musicals; most people think I'm an eccent...
RON MOODY

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptation...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly...
PATTI SMITH

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puert...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
BARTLETT SHER

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life ...
GLORIA EMERSON

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and...
LAILA ROBINS

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We ...
MAGGIE GRACE

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also becaus...
ALICIA WITT

I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker gir...
TAYLOUR PAIGE

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the o...
GUY LALIBERTE

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musica...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally i...
SAMIRA WILEY

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple ...
LAURA BENANTI

The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN

When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, whic...
JENNA USHKOWITZ

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell ...
BLYTHE DANNER

I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
VANESSA FERLITO

I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen ...
LAILA ROBINS

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and...
AD REINHARDT

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothi...
BEN WHEATLEY

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been abl...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

I love New York. I've always loved New York.
EMILIE DE RAVIN

I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every...
SARAH HAY

I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I...
KIM DICKENS

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a ...
ALICIA WITT

I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived ...
DARIN STRAUSS

I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I ...
ERIN GRAY

I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I w...
KATE MARA

Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new ...
TASHA SMITH

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came righ...
GENE HACKMAN

I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t...
DREAMA WALKER

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I've done commercial work for Amtrak. However, that was branded as Stanton. I stipulated at the ...
BRANDON STANTON

I've had a relatively charmed life. I loved to be out in the city. New York was my town. I'v...
ALEC BALDWIN

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well...
JONATHAN DEMME

What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing frie...
DANNY PINTAURO

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombi...
FERNANDO BOTERO

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BADAR KHAN

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projec...
ADRIENNE BAILON

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works ...
EVA GREEN

I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet i...
ALBERT WYNN

I turn on the radio. I'm a really big fan of old-fashioned dial radio. I love WNYC and NPR and a...
JULIA STILES

I only know how to write musicals.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice started making musicals that had historical significance, ... They ...
EDWARD HARRIS

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot my...
VERA WANG

In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on c...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 199...
JULIE DELPY

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a vi...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was ...
GABY HOFFMANN

I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I&#...
ELIZA COUPE

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day j...
MEGAN AMRAM

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting b...
MEGAN MULLALLY

I could make thousands of dollars in Broadway musicals, but among the best experiences I had was doi...
JOHN CULLUM

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion ...
MARIO CANTONE

I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's reall...
TESSA THOMPSON

I like learning new stuff, also, and I can sit there and watch shows on National Geographic and the ...
SHAWN MICHAELS

The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that my job as an actor is also that of a detective, archaeologist, and mystery solver.

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The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that my job as an actor is also that of a detective, archaeologist, and mystery solver.

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