Kirsten Nelson Quotes

I did a lot of musicals growing up.

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet. But I was glad, in the end, because I learned a lot about playing that score.

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.

If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.

I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.

I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.