I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn't really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.
In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.
My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.
Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great shows ever for musical theatre? It's a seemingly odd subject.
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.
Musical theatre is, for sure, my first love.
When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.
I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.
I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.
There's a lot of great, talented, passionate musical theatre practitioners and directors here. But it's very hard to suddenly start building great musicals in a town like Sydney where there hasn't been any great musicals built.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2;' I'd like to touch Meryl Streep - which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams.