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Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
William Goldman
Time
Three
Playwright
Broadway
Had
Failed
Am
Yes
Shows
By The Time
All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star Trek,' and I can finally say I've done that.
Wilson Cruz
Trek
Finally
Musical
Say
Broadway
Kid
Done
Wanted
Star
Star Trek
Ever
If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
Yakov Smirnoff
Great
You
Important
Say
Broadway
Something
New
York
New York
Places
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
Yancy Butler
Family
Theatre
Mother
Side
Broadway
Neil
General
Simon
General Manager
Manager
Grandfather
Production
Shows
Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
Zac Efron
Love
Wait
Doubt
Back
Musical
Broadway
Musical Theater
Without
Get
Theater
Actually
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
Zooey Deschanel
School
Thought
Singing
Broadway
High
High School
Through
Like
Singer
Might
Much
Acting
I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and somehow managed to play it all on acoustic guitar.
Paul Gilbert
Guitar
Down
Keyboard
Progressive
Broadway
Out
Lies
Classic
Somehow
Parts
Rock
Lamb
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Worked
Play
I'm an actor first and foremost. But I've also started an organization, Broadway Impact, that advocates for marriage equality. I'm an actorvist.
Rory O'Malley
Marriage
Equality
Organization
First
Broadway
Marriage Equality
Impact
Also
Advocate
Foremost
Actor
Started
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.
Mark O'Donnell
Way
Broadway
Those
Write
New
Got
Least
Yorker
New Yorker
Fleeting
Aspired
Novel
Things
Early
I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
Jack O'Brien
World
Stage
Macbeth
Broadway
Introduce
More
Proud
Audiences
Lady
Bursting
Who
Actress
World Stage
Phenomenal
Instead of watching the World Series, I was watching Steve Austin versus Dustin Rhodes in a 15-minute Broadway for the WCW TV title at Halloween Havoc 1991.
Tony Khan
World
Halloween
Broadway
TV
Havoc
Instead
Steve
Versus
Austin
Title
Series
World Series
Watching
We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.
Kelli O'Hara
Live
Broadway
Oklahoma
Musicals
Visit
Idealistic
New
Idyllic
Lot
Version
Up
York
New York
Movie
Theater
Live Theater
Growing
Growing Up
Believed
Watched
You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
Harry Connick, Jr.
You
Broadway
Kid
Out
Kind
Piano
Performing
Know
Sort
Practicing
Happen
Happened
Which
Organically
Things
Career
Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in the West End or Broadway. The Market concerns itself with theater of this country, for this country.
John Kani
Country
South Africa
White
Other
Market
Solely
Broadway
Par
Entertain
Concerns
Audience
West
Exist
South
End
Itself
Going
Africa
Theater
Theaters
Keep
Here
I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
Uzo Aduba
Me
You
People
Before
Broadway
Musicals
New
Know
Sing
She
Does
Always
Doing
Get
York
Orange
Going
New York
Theater
Ask
Who
Even
Ever
Actually
When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something that was done Off-Off Broadway in a theater. It was called 'What Else Is There?' and it was four or five people playing missiles in a silo waiting to take off.
Robert Downey Sr.
Army
Waiting
People
Writing
Else
Imitations
Broadway
Out
Something
Take
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Missiles
Wrote
Got
Off
Five
Done
Theater
Then
Usual
Four
Started
Playing
Broadway is at its best when it represents as many people as possible.
Christopher Jackson
Best
People
Broadway
Possible
Represents
Many
The emergence of social media in the Broadway fan's life - it's sort of a serendipitous thing for us and for a lot of shows. I always wonder what 'Rent' would've felt like through that lens.
Christopher Jackson
Life
Social Media
Broadway
Emergence
Through
Like
Sort
Felt
Always
Rent
Lot
Wonder
Fan
Social
Lens
Us
Shows
Media
Thing
I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.
Christopher Jackson
Think
Incredible
Tool
Musical
I Think
Broadway
Rap
Telling
Idea
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Story
We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Too
Broadway
Broadway Musicals
Musicals
Go
Up
Expensive
Growing
Growing Up
I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
School
Broadway
High
I Came
High School
New
Got
Rent
Equity
Came
Debut
Did
York
New York
Show
Card
If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there's always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along.
Christopher Jackson
Time
History
You
People
Back
Broadway
Kind
See
Throughout
Writers
Delivered
Pushing
Along
Look
Periods
Always
Been
Same
Same Time
The History Of
Where
Want
Form
While
Producers
Things
There's not a lot of ego in the Broadway community. Everyone's out to do well.
Cody Simpson
Ego
Community
Everyone
Broadway
Out
Well
Lot
I think typically you'd start in a supporting role or an ensemble role, or maybe even an off-Broadway role. So to come into a lead role on Broadway, especially taking over a role that has been played by two phenomenal actors in the past, that is some large shoes to fill.
Cody Simpson
You
Past
Shoes
Think
I Think
Ensemble
Broadway
Has-Been
Some
Lead
Lead Role
Taking
Supporting
Over
Supporting Role
Come
Been
Role
Maybe
In The Past
Large
Even
Fill
Actor
Played
Start
Phenomenal
Two
As soon as I saw 'Chinglish' on Broadway, I began to envision this smart and insightful cross-cultural comedy as a film.
Justin Lin
Smart
Comedy
Saw
Broadway
Insightful
Soon
Envision
Began
Film
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Dignity
Nothing
Broadway
Stature
Match
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