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“I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation. There's all kinds of reasons not to use true rhyme in a lyric, like with off-color humor.”

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Author:Robert Lopez

“I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of The Book of Mormon . And Girls felt very much the same way - there was an excitement about it as we were doing it; I knew it was something special.”

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Author:Andrew Rannells

“I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But the two have grown apart so that popular music is based more than ever on a rhythmic grid that is irrelevant in musical theater. In popular music, words matter less and less. Especially now that it's so international, the fewer words the better. While theater music becomes more and more confined to a few blocks in midtown.”

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Author:Stephin Merritt

“At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.”

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Author:Seth MacFarlane

“I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.”

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Author:Tatiana Maslany

“Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.”

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Author:A. J. McLean

“Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.”

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.”

“We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.”

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Author:Carly Simon

“We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.”

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Author:Neil Tennant

“I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.”

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Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“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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Author:Betty Buckley

“I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas, but I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.”

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Author:Dianna Agron

“I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.”

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Author:Lana Parrilla

“As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.”

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Author:Andrew Rannells

“I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.”

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Author:Sara Paxton

“How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)”

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Author:Shepherd Mead

“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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Author:Loni Anderson

“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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Author:Trevor Nunn

“Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!”

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Author:Nathan Lane

“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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Author:Gretchen Mol

“If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.”

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Author:Carlisle Floyd

“I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.”

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Author:Zac Efron

“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!”

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Author:Zac Efron

“I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.”

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Author:Zac Efron

“I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.”

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Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I've found that musical theater is my passion.”

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Author:Samantha Barks

“It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.”

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Author:Kurt Weill

“I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.”

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Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.”

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Author:Samantha Barks

“I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“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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Author:Michelle Branch

“I grew up doing musical theater.”

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Author:Chris Colfer

“Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.”

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Author:Alex Flinn

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