Season Finale!
It is rare when you have what can be called a “perfect” experience but I think we came pretty close yesterday for the wrap up of the 2008 Mountain Shakespeare Festival season.
We had a full house for our final “You Can’t Take It With You,” to say the least, and this capped a weekend of large houses - or so I hear because I was off in Vermont for a couple days for the opening of a new theatre.
(More on that later.)
Sitting and watching this extraordinary enemble play with this play brought me great delight as a director. As I watched the story unfold and the work of each performer I knew what they had been through individually to get to this point and in every case there was clear growth and such truthfulness in what they brought to the performance.
As the final lines were spoken, I felt like standing for them, for their wonderful committment and fine, fine execution but I didn’t want to be the director that forces a standing ovation. No need to worry as out of the corner of my eye I saw the center section stand and cheer and I joined in.
Bravo, company of our Festival, and all those who stood behind and beside them to make this happen. Take a well-earned bow.
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