Ken Howard Quotes

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

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I go to the opera. It's mostly my wife that's a bigger fan, I'd say, than I am. I like the big opera. I want a lot of people on stage, elephants and marching stuff, and the modern stuff I don't care for.

I know some of those 'Glee' people, and they can really sing! I wish we could hear them live, because I know some of them and they can really sing like nobody's business.

I like 'Glee' because I love all the singing. It's like an hour-long music video. Those kids are so talented, and I love 'The Glee Project'.

I love to entertain an audience.

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

I had seen 'Avenue Q' off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it was the smartest, funniest thing I'd seen in a long time.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.

Sometimes I feel like 'Avenue Q' or even 'Book of Mormon' might not have happened without 'Urinetown.' 'Urinetown' sort of paved the way, just in terms of what Broadway would accept in its houses. It just blows my mind, the stuff 'Book of Mormon' gets away with. It's way farther across the line than 'Urinetown' ever was.

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.