In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.
Quotes about jukebox (11 Quotes)
But no one was asking me. I was here to do a job, and gray steel lockers or pale peach jukebox was no business of mine.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.
Going from one jukebox musical ... I read the script for Lennon and thought this is right up my alley. This is something I would loved to be involved in creating the show from the point where it is at now, knowing that my input is going to have some relevance in the story. Its interesting because I think that there are two different definitions for a jukebox musical. The first is the kind of Mamma Mia, Good Vibrations, All Shook Up theme the kind that creates a story around a catalog of music. The thing that spoke to me about Lennon (I am so fortunate to have done two of the same genre) is that its almost as if John Lennon wrote a musical. Its hard to say. Its almost as if he wrote a musical about his life because his song are very specific about who he was as an individualwhere he was goingwhere he had beenand his present life and its almost as if he wrote the songs to a book of his life that wasnt written you know what I mean So thats what really interested me about it. Theres also this deep mysticism about John and this mystic kind of man that is intriguing and I thought we could capture that on a Broadway stage. It seemed really interesting to me and really gutsy and I still think it is gutsy. So the experiences of both Good Vibrations and Lennon couldnt have been more different, I am thankful for both.
We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but (book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice) and (director) Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Whether they're jukebox musicals I hate the term or new and hip, you gotta pick songs that support the story. If you don't feel for the characters, if you're not worrying about what is going to happen, you're going to fail.
There's a touch screen where you can assemble snippets into a mini-show. Imagine you go to a jukebox and punch in a number of tapes, and it plays your show.
People call me a human jukebox because I know so many songs. Music's always been so huge in my life, just putting the radio on and learning songs.
We were like a traveling jukebox, and then we added cheerleaders to the jukebox and it started to look like an overly decorated Christmas tree.