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" Kelli O'Hara is incredible. "
Michael Arden
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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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Magic
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Back
Creating
Different
" Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible. "
Michael Arden
Creating
Arts
Future
" There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link. "
Michael Arden
Only
Within
Strong
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Go
Together
Looking
" We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it. "
Michael Arden
Precious
Realize
Living
" 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. "
Michael Arden
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Time
Change
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Love
Together
Enjoy
" At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together. "
Michael Arden
Best
End
Help
" I love Disney. "
Michael Arden
Disney
Love
I Love
" I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over. "
Michael Arden
Home
Listening
Remember
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Voice
Animal
Care
" 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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Together
Care
Rich
" I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks. "
Michael Arden
Think
How
Favorite
" My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate. "
Michael Arden
Island
Together
School
" I read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder. "
Michael Arden
I Am
Post
Read
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Texas
Growing
Growing Up
" You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile. "
Michael Arden
Go
Life
You
" I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way. "
Michael Arden
Looking
School
Looking Back
" When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you to engage. "
Michael Arden
You
Like
People
" At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice. "
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Spring
Voice
People
" I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal. "
Michael Arden
Think
Animal
Feeling
" It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle. "
Michael Arden
Beautiful
Love
Work
" Every decision you make has a consequence. "
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Make
You
Every
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Men
Opportunity
Proud
" My dream would be to have 50 people in a show with each person from a different country. "
Michael Arden
Dream
People
Country
" My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid. "
Michael Arden
Me
Community
Grandparents
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Time
Love
Looking
" 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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Deaf
Sharing
Doing
" 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. "
Michael Arden
Chance
Home
Family