theatrical elements Quotes

I think it's a shame when pop culture forgets that theatricality is a big part of it. When Neil Young is fumbling around in his pocket looking for the right harmonica, it doesn't matter that he's a dude in the hat who is a man of the people - there's a theatricality there. You don't have to be David Bowie or the Kabuki theater to have that theatricality going on.

Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy Black.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.