It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'
The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.
It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.
There's something wholesome about the theatre.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.