What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family. '
When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.
I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played. But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.
The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in. The Beatles were always taking in stuff and filtering stuff out to us. There's such a classical sense of arrangement, and their harmonies-what the Beatles did vocally is amazing.
I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.
Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.
Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon. ' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park. ' It's wonderful.
I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
I love musicals and I love Broadway.
Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.
I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U. S. , it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.
Maybe for others it was difficult to find a role that suited my type. But I never thought of myself as a type. I really thought I could play anything, quite frankly. And I have. Especially in the theater, which is where I came from. And I may go back to soon, as a matter of fact. To Broadway.