I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.
I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.
Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.
People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.
I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.
I spent a whole year in 'Spamalot' and didn't have one drop of alcohol.
I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and had said really good things about it and about the work. I didn't care at that time about making money.
You can't get down and dirty at the opera.
I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."
Even before Pentatonix, I always thought that I would be out here in New York doing Broadway and doing musical theater. That was what gave me the passion for music in the first place, so it's been really, really, cool.
When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what this was like back in the day when I would come here at night after doing 'A Chorus Line.'
I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.
I remember seeing 'Les Miserables' with the original cast - this was in '87 - and I was blown away by it.
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either
Dance has been a driving force in my life for 25 years. From music videos and hip hop, to jazz and musical theater, to ballet and classic modern dance, I have had extensive exposure to a variety of techniques that inspire my own electric style.
I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.
'American Psycho' reminds me of my track in 'Tommy,' my first Broadway show. It's similar conceptually and has that rock n' roll streak.
I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.
I'm obsessed with 'Hamilton.' I've seen it, like, three times, and if I could get a weekly pass, I would.
I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.
