Rupert Holmes Quotes

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.

I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes they're tired and bored, and we have to wake them up and engage them.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cats, West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Wicked, you name it!

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

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

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.