Scott Ellis Quotes

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

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

'Kiss Me, Kate' was my 'Ragtime' Tony.

I couldn't be more excited about doing 'Kinky Boots' on Broadway; it's going to be a delicious challenge!

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.

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

In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.

'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.

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

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

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

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

Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.

I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'

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.

To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.