"I've always felt like you can understand the moment you're having in your life better when you're in conversation with people who are all at different moments in their lives."
"Something that Martyna does that is so that is so gorgeous and effortless is she lifts the stories of these three characters to the highest of value that you can in a play. She centers the story around the lived experiences of these three people whose lived experiences are very different than many of our audience members may be."
"Are we in great relationship with the land that we occupy? Are we in the right relationship right now with everyone who has gathered? Maybe, maybe not."
"It's not a jazz record. It's not a theater record. It's our record and it's very emblematic of the music that we enjoy listening to and the music that we enjoy creating together."
"I feel very lucky that I've been able to, in a way, fail at certain parts of the theatrical tradition in order to learn things. We're all trying to create something together and having the opportunity to simply exist is how you learn and how you grow."
"When you and I have to exist in the art, entertainment, artistic world, I know I need to choose gratitude when the pendulum swings at the end of the day - even in these hard situations."
"If we put all of our love and heart and soul into it, maybe someone will want it when we're done with it. I put the same kind of love and care into The Prom as we did in Moulin Rouge."
"I think we could all agree it's a beast on the show. She's on that freight train until the end."
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"I mainly have been following Wayne Brady's lead when it comes to this role. And then coming back to that to myself and also expressing myself as how I want to be."