Jukebox Musicals Quotes

I love song-and-dance films.

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.

The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, whatever I could get my hands on. And then some musical things, like Camelot, Singing in the Rain and Hair.