Tom Kitt Quotes

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

I'd really like to do 'Floyd Collins.' I love Adam Guettel.

I was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in.

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.

I would love to do a musical. When I did 'Fame L.A.' for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.

I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special.

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

A show isn't just a show, a show is entertainment; it's modeling, acting, singing and dancing all ripped into one, with the little time that we have to do it.

I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They're brilliant at it.