All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.