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" I really enjoy 'The Beauty Is' from 'Light in the Piazza.' "
Michael Arden
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" I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home. "
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" If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning. "
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" I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over. "
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" I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage. "
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" I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me. "
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" I love Disney. "
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" I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way. "
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" As someone who lives with an animal, I think it's important to learn how to responsibly care for souls who don't have their own voice. They can't advocate for themselves. "
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" Haiti is a proud nation, rich in heritage and spirituality. How they have been able to not only survive but thrive is a testament to how the Haitian people have come together to rebuild, create new families, and care for one another. "
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" I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I'd put together, and I'd love for it to be nonverbal so it's something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy. "
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" I read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder. "
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" It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.' "
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" Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible. "
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" I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men. "
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" I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.' "
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" I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return. "
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" The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors. "
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" You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile. "
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" So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was. "
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" The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things. "
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" Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of. "
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" Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component. "
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" I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle. "
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" We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it. "
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" The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time. "
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" My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid. "
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" Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true. "
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" Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity. "
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" I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks. "
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