Kelli O'Hara

“Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.”

“The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.”

“We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.”

“I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.”

“I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.”

“I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.”

“In my special place, room service could only consist of my husband making me a breakfast of eggs, avocados, and hummus. And coffee with milk.”

“If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.”

“When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions become necessary, when they aren't camp, that, to me, is magic. I've done mu...”

“When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.”