Artistic Statement

Artistic Statement

It has all been done before. Every story we see on the stage has its roots in something we have already seen, something that was written long ago or not so long ago. Put a man and a woman on the stage together, and the audience knows they will be in one another’s arms by the final curtain. Yes, things have changed a bit. Now it might be two men, or two women, or a man and a robot, whatever, but they will be together in the end. Or not. In spite of their frequent predictability, musicals continue to move us. We want to know how the people on the stage get from the beginning to the end. Although the hero is always up a tree by intermission, there are a million ways to get up into that tree and even more ways to get down. The getting up and getting down is the story, the part we need to hear. The songs are important, but they are just that part of the story that is so intense that it needs to be sung. As the story unwinds, the audience members are swept along, bringing their own hopes, fears, and priorities to the story, becoming participants in the adventure of getting from beginning to end. Being the viewers along on an adventure that continues for them after they have left the theater is my goal, and this shared adventure is my artistic dream.