Theater Camaraderie Quotes

What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.

The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.

Being in the theatre is like being in a little family: you get really close.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I'll say "dude" or I'll say "bro," and people will laugh.

I think the New York theater audience is very savvy. Sometimes you get newbies who think they're going to be watching Smash onstage, and sometimes you have people who have been coming to theater for years. It's the combination of those people in an audience that makes for a pretty amazing night - their ability to give each other permission to react and enjoy, in a way that maybe they wouldn't if they weren't sitting next to each other.