Craig Zadan Quotes

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

I'm a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did 'Hairspray' in high school - I was Seaweed.

There is really nothing like seeing a live stage performance.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

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.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

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

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.

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.

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

Performing is my passion.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.