I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.
Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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.
I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.
I was heavily involved in musical theater.
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.