Gurinder Chadha Quotes

You have to realize that when I started to work on 'Aladdin', Disney Theatrical wasn't in existence. I suppose I had always hoped that 'Aladdin' would be somewhere on the runway.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

My first project was 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'. I co-produced that.

I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special.

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a lot of stage shows in Sydney and I love performing live.

I would not rule out a musical. What I will categorically say is that I will not be in a 'Peaky Blinders' musical.

I'm a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did 'Hairspray' in high school - I was Seaweed.

I always wanted to work on Broadway. That's something I always wanted to do.

I love Broadway shows.

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

I came to Broadway through Indiana University.

I would love to do Broadway again.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'

I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.