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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?

Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.

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

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

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

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

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

I started training for musicals since I was a boy.