You step out from the dark into the light. What happens when we step out of the dark into the light?
We do the show,
We do the show,
We do the show for the people in the dark.
They need us.
You know life is hard,
It is very cruel.
When you step over the line into the light you have a certain responsibility to the people in the dark.
You've got to be strong.
You've got to take all of your pain and bury it inside your costume.
For twenty-two hours each day you can be just like them.
You can moan and worry and cry, sleep and eat, and drink, and make love, grow old and die like everyone else.
We all live very well.
And we all grow old.
But for two hours every night, you are not allowed to let life in.
You do the show for the people in the dark.
Be strong.
Bury your pain inside your costume.
The show is for them not for you.
It's funny how a simple little love story can change so many lives.
We carry that story on stage every night for fifty years.
Now I leave it with you.
When you step into the light to do your show.
Play your role with everything you've got.
Invest every tear and every laugh.
Everything beautiful and lovely form your lives.
Do your show and live your lives with humanity.
Because whatever you do it changes some one's life forever.
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2 comments:
THANK YOU DAVYN.
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL REMINDER HOW MAGICAL THE THEATRE IS.
WE GET TO DROP OUR STORIES FOR TWO HOURS TO TELL SOMEONE ELSE'S STORY TO SOMEONE ELSE. WE CAN JUST BE IN THE MOMENT AND LET GO AND LET THE THEATRE GOD'S HAVE THEIR WAY WITH
US!
BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR CONTINUOUS DEDICATION TO THEATRE!
The quote is from Alegria and actually says "everything beautiful and ugly in your life" not everything beautiful and lovely... The point Momo is making in the movie is that you must give everything to the show, everything that makes you human.
The quote by Momo was intended to counter what Fleur was saying in the previous quote you pasted directly above it (where he says you should bury your pain for two hours). The two are contradictory and are not intended to flow with each other...
Humanity is a certainty of life and you should not disguise it for the sake of a show. If you invest your heart and soul into the show, someone in the audience will perceive it and you will change that person's life forever.
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