'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

Jason Moore

Categorized in : How Movies Learned Music

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

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I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.

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

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Ultimately, as a director, you try and tell people where to look, but unlike film or television, where you force them to look at something, you can't control it completely.

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'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

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For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

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