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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.