Twyla Tharp Quotes

Any musical is a major undertaking.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

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.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

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.

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

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'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.

It takes a while to get a show on, and I've a number that have not yet been produced. I want to see all of them produced spectacularly before I pack it in.

I've been really fortunate to do several shows on Broadway; the longest run I've done is nine months, and that was 'Porgy and Bess.' The shortest run I've done was about a month and a half: my first Broadway lead in 'The Scottsboro Boys.'

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.

I'd like to have one of my plays on Broadway.

I would love to do a musical. Put that in the universe! A rom-com musical!

I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

I do not differentiate between a commercial and an indie project as long as there is a strong subject and the character in the script is relatable.

'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.