I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
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When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
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At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
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I actually started acting because I wanted to be in musical theater, which is kind of a dorky fact.
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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
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An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
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Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
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The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
When you become an actor, you find out things about yourself that you can bring to a character that no one else could. That's the way to get cast. Instead of doing things perfectly, you have to be real. That was something I had to let go of when I started acting, the idea of being perfect.
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Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
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We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
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In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
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