Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.
Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.
When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
I love kids, but they are a tough audience.