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" Some scenes are just more people's thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she's there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come. "

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" Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me. "

Gavin Creel

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Musical Theater

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" I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me. "

Gavin Creel

See

Trying

" My mom and dad have always, always, and continue to be the most incredible citizens of the world and most generous in quiet ways, that I strive to do even a fraction of what they do. "

" Sometimes when I do a musical, they'll be a scene that comes up, and I'm like, 'Oh, I hate this scene,' but you get through it. "

Gavin Creel

You

Sometimes

" I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention. "

" I'm not much for formality. "

Gavin Creel

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Formality

" I'm tired of all the angry stuff out there. "

" I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively. "

" I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.' "

" I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them. "

" I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.' "

" When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified. "

" I was really proud to be in that show. I will never forget. I got the script to 'Millie,' and I'm flipping through the script and saying, 'Boy, I have some lines... I have a big song.' I was 25 years old and had never been on Broadway before. I got to the end of the script, and I was really nervous and excited. I realized I had a lot to do. "

" I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.' "

" I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.' "

" I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in. "

" I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance. "

" We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period. "

" It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice. "

" I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through. "

" I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing. "

" I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals. "

" The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust. "

" Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C. "

" I want to be a poster boy for the uncool. "

" I was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in. "

" I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when it's bad, there's nothing worse. "

" The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle. "

" One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world. "

" I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place. "