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'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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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!
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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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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So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.
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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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I actually started acting because I wanted to be in musical theater, which is kind of a dorky fact.
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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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To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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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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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
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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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In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
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I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
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I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
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I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
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