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“I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.”

Years Use Shows Morning Theater Evening Afternoon Hiring Best Year

Author:Mickey Gilley

“In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.”

Mind Matter Facts Found Forget Audience Trouble Easier Laughter Performances Theater Customers Theatre Reactions Evening Forget It Matter Of Fact Hanging On Frame Of Mind

Author:Beatrice Lillie

“Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.”

Want Theater Evening

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Soul Play Hands Beautiful Consciousness Novel Objects Particular Pure Performances Theater Theatre Absence Evening Excitement Frustration Elusive Pure Soul

Author:Don DeLillo

“The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.”

Play Film Night Opportunity Audience Exercise Performances Theater Evening Controlled Another Opportunity

Author:Julia Stiles

“You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.”

Comedy Tragedy Theater Evening Satisfying

Author:Cate Blanchett

“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.”

Film Progress Building Performances Theater Evening Movie Relinquishing Relinquishing Control

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.”

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Author:Rex Harrison

“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.”

Shows Artist Audience Virtue Groups Unique Theater Dresses Theatre Evening Idiot Rehearsal Select

Book:Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor

Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor