Jonathan Groff Quotes

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

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday. I miss singing a lot. I listen to Broadway show tunes in my car and sing along to them.

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form.

I grew up doing musical theater.

I'd like to do Glinda in a movie of 'Wicked.' That'd be my dream.

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

I grew up near New York, and there were a lot of summer stock theaters in the area. I started an apprenticing with some of the theaters. Not really acting in them - I did everything else: everything but act.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

We got to see Sondheim shows, 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Cats' and all sorts of stuff. When you're 10 or 11 years old, it's just magnificent. The story-telling, the music - it lifts you out of your seat.

I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.

I was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'

I feel like with 'On the Town,' it was the perfect production and the perfect opportunity.

I worked with Michael Goode back in 2009. We had done a short film together where I was the actor and he was the director. We got on well and I always remember that being the one of the first acting jobs I did.

I love Jason Robert Brown.

Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.

Alongside the iconic 'South Pacific,' I absolutely loved working on 'Bright Star' with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.