"I just didn't think I could survive another hangover, that's all. Didn't think I could get through one more morning-after ick attack. [...] Icks. Anxiety. Guilt. From that split second when your eyes pop open, and you say, "My God, what did I do last night?" And then suddenly, zap. Total recall. [...] And then that struggle to survive until lunchtime, when you have a double bloody mary. That is, if you've waited till lunch. And then you're half pissed and useless for the rest of the afternoon. So you hang on till cocktail time. And by then, you're ready for what the evening holds, which hopefully is another party, where the whole goddamn cycle starts all over again. Yeah, well, I've been on that merry-go-round long enough. And I either had to get off or die of centrifugal force."

"It's not always like it happens in plays. Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story."

"You must never call anyone called Michael, Mickey. Those of us who are named Michael get very nervous about it."

"Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse."

"There's one thing to be said about masturbation: you certainly don't have to look your best."

"I feel like Old Man River. I'm tired of living and I'm scared of dying."

"Donald, you are a real card-carrying cunt."

"You're a sad and pathetic man. You're a homosexual and you don't want to be, but there's nothing you can do to change it. Not all the prayers to your god, not all the analysis you can buy in all the years you've go left to live. You may one day be able to know a heterosexual life if you want it desperately enough. If you pursue it with the fervor with which you annihilate. But you'll always be homosexual as well. Always Michael. Always. Until the day you die."

"Who is she? Who was she? Who does she hope to be?"

"Justin Ross - Greg Gardner"

"Blane Savage - Don Kerr"

"Charles McGowan - Mike Cass"

"Janet Jones - Judy Monroe"

"Pam Klinger - Maggie Winslow"

"Matt West - Bobby Mills"

"Yamil Borges - Diana Morales"

"Nicole Fosse - Kristine Evelyn-DeLuca"

"Vicki Frederick - Sheila Bryant"

"Sharon Brown - Kim, Zach's secretary"

"Jan Gan Boyd - Connie Wong"

"Terrence Mann - Larry, assistant choreographer"

"Michelle Johnston - Beatrice Ann "Bebe" Benson"

"Michael Blevins - Mark Tobori"

"[singing] Who am I anyway? Am I my resume? That is a picture of a person I don't know, What does he want from me? What should I try to be? So many faces all around and here we go, I need this job, Oh God, I need this show."

"Gregg Burge - Richie Walters"

"Every audition, I would dance rings around the other girls and I'd wind up in the alley with the other rejects. Until one day, after an audition, I swiped my dance card. And on a scale of 1 to 10 they gave me for dance: 10, for looks: 3. Well. [singing] Dance 10, Looks 3, And I'm still on unemployment, Dancing for my own enjoyment, That ain't it, kid, That ain't it, kid. Dance 10, Looks: 3, Is like to die. Left the theater, And called the doctor for my appointment to buy: Tits and ass, bought myself a fancy pair, Tightened up the derriere, Did the nose with it, All that goes with it, Tits and ass, Had the bingo-bongos done, Suddenly I'm getting national tours, Tits and ass, Won't get you jobs, Unless they're yours. Didn't cost a fortune, neither, Didn't hurt my sex life, either..."

"I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue on it. And wouldn't my father have to be this big ex-football hero. Well, he was so humiliated, he didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him."

"One singular sensation."

"I would always try to find ways to kill myself, but then I realized to commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant."

"Cameron English - Paul San Marco"

"Dammit, now can't ANYBODY up there hear me! Just let your hair down! Can't you talk? All of you, just talk, to me, to each other!... Jeez!"

"Why is it only I ever get invited places?"

"I'm going to ask you some questions. What I want to know is details about yourself. Things you're proud of, things you're ashamed of. So if anybody can't handle it and wants to leave, right now is the time to make up your mind."

"Michael Douglas - Zach, choreographer"

"Let me explain what I'm doing. This is not gonna be like other auditions. I'm looking for a strong chorus... people who can work together as a group - but I'm going to try to shake you up, see who you really are. We've got some small but important parts to be played by people in the chorus. Since I need great dancers, I can't expect you all to be great actors. So I don't want anybody to try to act. You understand? Just to be exactly who you are, which is just as important to me as how well you dance."

"Do you want to know all the wonderful and exciting things that've happened to me? Or do you want the truth?"

"Tony Fields - Al DeLuca"

"Alyson Reed - Cassie"

"Audrey Landers - Val Clarke"

"Lindsay Duncan - Tabitha Dickinson, a top theatre critic"