Adam Pascal Quotes

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.

When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

It's kind of wild and wonderful that 'West Side Story' continues to have a life after all these years. And when you see young people who are really engrossed by this film, that's so beautiful.

At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.

The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!

It's something we're trying to change and NASCAR is as a whole trying to bring in a younger fan base, a different-looking fan base, we're trying to change the whole demographic of the sport. Me going out to do that is something I'll take responsibility for.

If you are not getting people who have never been to the theatre before to come, then you are not doing your job.

You look out in our audiences, you don't see a sea of white-haired people. You see a lot of younger people.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.