#musicals

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. ↗

— John Lithgow

#carousel #darkest #experiences #exuberant #filled

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#broadway #broadway musicals #gay #i #know

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#emphasis #give #longing #love #melancholy

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#going #i #i think #important #musicals

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#come #i #i think #musicals #nothing

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.' ↗

— Trey Parker

#because #came #critics #filled #funny

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#awards #comedy #consideration #deserving #drama

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#because #best #dancer #ever #far

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#characters #comedies #disaster #ended #expect

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. ↗

— Emma Brockes

#musicals #change