Joshua Henry

“Prior to being in 'Carousel,' I had only seen the movie. So, when I read the script, I felt like it was a lot deeper than the movie portrayed it to be.”

“I remember when I was rehearsing 'Scottsboro Boys,' I was in 'American Idiot,' so, every night, I was screaming, singing these high, belty Cs and Ds, and then, during the day, I would be doing these legato lines - I am very lucky that I have had the training that I have so that I could handle all of that.”

“I would love, love, love to do a comedy like 'Gentleman's Guide,' something farcical and fast-paced, but I also want to do something that hasn't been written yet: the story of Sidney Poitier. A lot of people tell me that I look like him.”

“I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.”

“I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'”

“History can just be so unkind as time passes.”

“'The Light in the Piazza' is one of my top three musicals of all time.”

“I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.”

“I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.”

“I remember being in my house from when I was, like, five to when I was, like, 12. When hurricanes would happen, you just hold hands, and you say, 'You know what, we have each other. We're praying,' and this roof can literally peel off of your house.”

“When success comes, it changes everything, so I'm interested in portraying what that's like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.”

“I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.”

“I'd really like to do 'Floyd Collins.' I love Adam Guettel.”

“I love being in the gym and am training six days a week; I do a lot of high-intensity interval training so that my heart rate gets really high, and I practice, as I'm doing that, taking really deep breaths, and that really helps in a song and in a style of music where you have to sing long, flowing lines.”

“We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.”

“To have 'In The Heights' be my first show in New York after moving here, I remember feeling at the time like, you know, 'It doesn't get any better than this.'”

“I've done a lot of research about the Civil Rights movement, and I'm fascinated with how difficult it would have been for a black man to show feelings toward a white woman in that time period.”

“I'm not Mr. Brooding.”

“Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.”

“I avoided the party scene at the University of Miami. I came in to study musical theater, and I felt so behind. I literally knew nothing.”