Music is structure out of Chaos

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.