Quotes by Thomas Kail

When The Sound of Music aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. Thats incredible. Grease felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape.

One of the challenges of being a director is often you dont get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But its pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.

My pride at being a member of the theater community is deep, and we have a chance to reach a lot of people who might feel like theres a place for them. I want theater to be part of the cultural conversation and be on par with all mediums of television in its ability to be relevant.

I grew up with two sisters, and we owned three movies: Grease, Its a Wonderful Life, and Grease 2. And you can only watch Wonderful Life in the last half of the year. So I dont remember a time when I didnt know Grease.