Scott Ellis Quotes

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

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

When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

I'd really like to do 'Floyd Collins.' I love Adam Guettel.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

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.

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.