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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

My pride at being a member of the theater community is deep, and we have a chance to reach a lot of people who might feel like there's a place for them. I want theater to be part of the cultural conversation and be on par with all mediums of television in its ability to be relevant.

I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.