“I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.” ThinkingYearsSchoolVoiceTheaterMusicalMusical TheaterForteLegit Author:Cristin Milioti
“It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.” MenHumansWarNightVoiceCommunityLinesHistoryDarknessHeardRedMadnessTheaterStrikesClockDawnCivil WarBrownDisorderSaneImmenseThreadIrrationalAmerican Civil WarBindingCoherenceHarperFerryRed ThreadJohn BrownJohn Wilkes Booth Author:Bruce Catton
“I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.” SchoolTogetherVoiceCareersRolesTeacherPositionDramaTheaterExtraordinaryStartingRelaxedBack TogetherBasicsStarting OutTogether AgainBack Together Again Author:Ben Kingsley
“Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.” VoiceColorIllusionTheaterOperaTheatrical Author:Sarah Caldwell
“customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.” OrderActorsVoiceSilenceGainsTheaterBreathsViolentCheerSilence IsApplauseFlatteringExertionInterruptions Author:Sarah Siddons
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.” ThinkingMenWayWellsKindMeanArtMadeI CanStoriesUsePoetryVoiceFivePoetExpressionTraditionTheaterMusicalFolksSensesMediumsAll TimeAppealsNarrativeProseOne ManPeculiarGesturesVersesDo The BestPrintedTelling StoriesDynamicsFive SensesAnesthetics Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
“Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.” ActorsVoiceClassAudienceCreativeComedyFrontsComfortablePerformancesTheaterBackgroundsProducersFearlessPerformingCompetentHandyStand Up ComedySelf ConfidentLive PerformanceLive TheaterPerforming Live Author:Rob Paulsen
“If I had the money, I would love to open up a movie theater that just played images and colors and beautiful music. For me, there's nothing like listening to a beautiful opera sometimes - on a record or seeing it live - just to be sleepy and let those beautiful voices take me somewhere I've never been before.” IfsSometimesBeautifulVoiceRecordsSeeingColorListeningTheaterTake MeOperaSleepyMovie TheaterBeautiful MusicBeautiful Voice Author:Peter Stormare
“It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDreamWould BeVoiceKnow HowMinesTheaterMusicalRelatedBroadwayBroadway Musical Author:Alexa Ray Joel
“I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.” WritingPlayWantedFoundVoiceTheaterOriginalsPlaywright Author:Atom Egoyan
“When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.” PeopleFirstsKindChildrenYoungVoiceHappenedHeardFirst TimeTheaterOperaVery HappyTenors Author:Andrea Bocelli
“I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.” WorldFeelsWritingYearsPlayKidsSchoolVoiceCommunityActingToo MuchIdentityThis WorldGoes OnLessonsProgramTheaterCrisisSevenAccessI RealizedAuditionsSeven YearsConsumingIdentity CrisisTime Consuming Author:Tavi Gevinson
“I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't think the kind of people you write about are the ones our audience wants to see'... Up and coming young black female writers are still struggling to have their voices heard and have their plays produced.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingYearsKindPersonsStillsDonePlayYoungBlackVoiceAudienceStruggleHeardLove YouConversationFemaleTheaterFrankBlack PersonFemale Writers Author:Katori Hall
“Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.” WayWritingWellsI CanDoneBodyFacesVoiceShotsTheaterScriptsYour BodyCraftsYour FaceIndelible Author:William Mapother
“As far as entertainers, I know I'll sound like a cliché but they don't make 'em, like they use to. Barbra Streisand is one of them, also Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. The first theater voice I heard on a record was Ethel Merman and again, they just don't make them like that anymore.” KnowsFirstsUseSoundVoiceRecordsHeardTheaterEmsFrankEntertainersStreisand Author:Hugh Panaro
“I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensDreamBigsArtistStuffVoiceCareersTheaterMusicalWork OutNineEnjoyedSoloNine YearsMusical Theater Author:Luke Evans
“I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.” YearsStuffVoiceStudyTeacherTheaterTechniqueCoaches Author:Jessica Lange
“When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.” WritingMayRealSoundVoiceGoneClearMachinesTheaterSpeedWitCuresDawnShowersDelayHasteMphSinuses Author:Ray Bradbury
“I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!” WayTwoKidsFoundStuffVoiceTalkingClassDegreesTheaterVoice Over Author:Grey DeLisle
“I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.” BodyVoiceSingingTheaterDancingCinemaCracks Author:Meredith Monk