Randal Kleiser Quotes

What musicals need is a new me.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day.

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.

Whether a film is breaking into song and dance or if it's something like 'Whiplash,' I find it incredibly rewarding, and I'm drawn to those stories with a musical component.

'Oh, Calcutta,' was one of the healthiest shows I've ever been in.

I think that much of the success of the Broadway mounting of 'Newsies' was due in no small part to the infectious camaraderie on stage between the boys.

I did three musicals in high school.

When the script of 'Nine' came along, I saw that there's a possibility of making something that is genuinely new and entertaining at the same time.

There's a tendency to think tap's had its day, but 'Happy Feet' kept us in the race. That penguin is our Shirley Temple.

'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.

I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed to musical theater after the choreographer Robert Joffrey saw me perform while I was on scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet School.

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.

I don't look like a chorus girl.

Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.