Harold Prince Quotes

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.

Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.

When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. There was real talent. And now, the theater is a little Disney-fied.

I danced in choruses from about 1959 to 1967, in 'Take Me Along,' 'Wildcat,' and 'Subways Are for Sleeping.'

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

I went to 'Godspell' when I was 10 - my mother took me, and that was the first play I ever saw. That was it for me.

The movie that really 'did it for me' was 'All About Eve.' The backstage feeling, the authenticity, the passion those people had for their lives in the theater. I must say, the movie 'All About Eve,' what a great movie! 'All About Eve' had a profound effect on my life.

I'm obsessed with musicals.

I knew in my heart I wanted to do musical theater professionally. I just didn't know how to go about it or how to communicate that to my parents.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.

I never imagined that I would have a successful solo career, let alone one in musical theater.

I'm not a fan of musicals. Never have been.

That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.