I hope they’re reminded that joy is very easy to access if you just put down your phone, look at another person, and make a human connection. You’ll find a new experience that you wouldn’t have had otherwise. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
I like that Amelie is strange, just like me. I’m happy I’ve gotten to be on this journey following my ‘Hamilton’ journey because they’re so different. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
I feel like ‘Amelie’ is very much an extension of me. She’s a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
I came to New York for school, and then I did this amazing show that was received very well, with a great group of people, and I felt like I was creating something that I was really proud of, and then ‘Hamilton’ was my next big thing in New York. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
Hamilton’ just asks us all to go a little bit deeper: whether you’re a hip-hop fan seeing musical theater for the first time, or if you were thinking you were gonna see some reprise of 1776, and now it’s this? And you’re thinking, ‘Wait a minute, these people aren’t white!’ It asks you just take a step and go a little deeper. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you’re like, ‘All right, all right, enough already.’ But now there’s a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just… read a book. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it’s so rare that the art that you are making is reaching a huge mass of people. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
I eat a light but sustaining dinner before the show: a bunch of greens and some non-gluten quinoa or rice. I’ll have a snack at intermission. I’m trying so hard not to have meals after the show because it’s so late, but sometimes I just want a big bowl of pasta. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
There’s a very old tradition of theater actors doing their own makeup. It’s like putting on your mask. There’s an element of storytelling involved in it – you put on your character when you put on your makeup. At least, that’s how I like to look at it. Phillipa Soo Read Quote
