Live performance is a gift. It is a magical, fleeting experience that can never be duplicated or exceeded.Not even by the most advanced digital wizardry or precise cinematography.
If performance is so momentary, so transient, so impossible to recapture, what on earth makes people want to work so hard to do it?Why spend all that time and effort for something that will only ever happen once?And why would people want to go see live shows when they could park themselves in front a screen at home and watch TV?
I grew up in the world of creating shows and I have always been utterly fascinated by how it is so obviously about “making magic happen”; a kind of magic that can only happen when you are there.
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