Jonathan Groff Quotes

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.

I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like, 'I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.'

My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

I saw 'Cats' on a school trip. I thought it was neat and a little weird. The set was cool.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I have very important phone messages that will be playing Broadway. An evening of my tweets I think is going to be booked into the Golden Theatre.

My daughter's favorite musical is 'Wicked,' which she has seen hundreds of times - she even worked as an usher at the Pantages so she could see it over and over. Her dream is to play Elphaba.

My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

I was on my dad's tour bus when I was super little. My dad did a tour of 'Annie Get Your Gun' when I was really little, and I loved going and seeing him do that.

I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard.

I'd love to do Broadway. It's funny. I love it, but I've never actually seen an actual Broadway show, not even 'Hairspray.'

I remember when I was in 'Hairspray' - my first Broadway show - I truly was in awe of the voices I got to hear on a nightly basis around me. I'm thinking, 'Wow! Why aren't these people selling millions of records?' They're the ones that are out there, you know, belting their faces off!

The first musical I ever saw was 'Ragtime.'

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

I was so involved in the regular joy of school that I didn't do any plays. On a dare, I auditioned for 'South Pacific' my junior year. I showed up at the last minute to the audition and ended up getting cast as the lead. I haven't turned back since then.

When I was about 12, I saw Mark Rylance do this play in New York City called 'Jerusalem' and that really changed the game for me.