I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
Most people seem to resent the controversial in music; they don't want their listening habits disturbed. They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant...
I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play ...
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 1...
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'
It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The people who want to be discovered do theater on the side in L.A. But there are people who are very dedicated to theater who love...
I do think that it's better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen, would you like to go to the theater after that? Probably not. You've seen it. And that's the mystery of a musical that hasn't been filmed. You're bl...
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.
In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.
That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
