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Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

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

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.