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Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.

People sometimes forget how important Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting to get involved in the theatre - it's brilliant.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the energy of these young people. They're the next generation, and what they have is very representative of how I felt when I was 19 or 20 or so. I'm really happy to be with them.