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The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

— Shirley Jones

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.

— Hal Price

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

— Gene Kelly

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

— Dick Van Dyke

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

— Vincente Minnelli

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

— John Woo

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

— Stephen Sondheim

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

✗Opposing Perspectives

I hate musicals. There, I said it.

— Aaron Paul

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

— Ismail Merchant