Let's keep it real.

So, quick update: As for the question I asked yesterday, I have indeed stepped down from the role, and am much happier as a result. I also just uploaded a video to YouTube, about the Protestant Reformation (don't judge my nerdiness :3), and am beginning tech week(s) for Man of La Mancha, my school show.

With that out of the way, I'd like to talk today a little about a show I saw last night. I went to see Aida at a local, off off Broadway theatre. The one thing that I find to be horrible about live theatre is the fact that after watching a beautifully performed show, and being lost in that world, you have to snap back into reality. The reason for theatre, as I've mentioned, is to draw you away from real life and let you watch another story for a change. As I was talking to some new friends at rehearsals for a play I'm in, we got onto the topic of normality. One of the guys said, "I don't think any actors are normal. We live in pretend worlds, playing pretend people. That's why we're so convincing as normal people on stage." I think that basically sums it up. An actor's livelihood is done by playing characters, a big charade. And actors are usually the most insecure people of all. We live to be other people, not ourselves, so when a play or a musical or a dance number is finished, what do we do? We have to immediately snap back into our own lives, and deal with our own problems that we don't know how they will end. The good thing about theatre is that all scripts have an ending, a resolution of some sorts, whether good or bad. What's life's resolution. Will you succeed in an acting career? Will you drown in real life when you're not cast in a show? Just some things on my mind, I suppose...