I have a friend who works at ATL and he said that audiences who saw THE CLEAN HOUSE there responded to the show like magic. At the curtain call...they would politely applaud the actors when they took their bow, then they would stop applauding. And just sit there. No one would get up to leave the theatre. They all just sat and took everything in. The house lights were up, the actors left the stage, the lobby doors were opened, but the audience didn't budge.
I would have killed to have seen that production.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
