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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Ismail Merchant

What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

— Damien Chazelle

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

— Anthony Head

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

— John Mellencamp

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

— Joss Whedon

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

— Jason Moore

It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

— David Levithan

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

— Marisa Tomei

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

— Stanley Donen

✗Opposing Perspectives

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

— Rob Marshall