Broadway was weird.Daveed DiggsTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“Broadway was weird.
“What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying.”Daveed DiggsEffectively
“If a project feels good to you, say yes. And do it with everything that you have and hope that the outcome is good.”
“I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.”Bel PowleyBroadway
“I have always wanted to do Broadway, my whole life, but I never knew I'd actually make it - it's a dream; it's never been in the realm of possibility. So to be doing 'Hello Dolly!,' it's not just Broadway, but it's the most joyful, sort of classic Broadway experience with the most extraordinary company.”Beanie FeldsteinBroadway
“As a kid, you don't have a ton of spaces where you are honored, where what you think is honored and what you say is revered.”Daveed DiggsHonored
“It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is this idea about authenticity as a rapper, in the fact that you rap things that are yours. That's not what doing a play is. You're interpreting somebody else's words.”Daveed DiggsAuthenticity
“Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.”Daveed DiggsBroadway
“'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed.”Josh YoungBroadway
“Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'”Ian AxelBroadway