What Do You Love Most About Theater?

I love the energy and the emotions. It's contagious. I love that at some points things can go wrong and actors need to improvise. Each show is slightly different and there's nothing like a live audience, who could see the show on two separate occasions (or with different casts) and have a slightly different take on some characters.
I like how the forth wall can be broken much easier and the audience is included much more frequently. The audience is one of the most important parts of a show so why not include them?

I could list so much more that I love about it from the points of both the audience and the performer.

Updated On: 11/10/05 at 05:30 PM

There's no way I can answer this. Theatre is life, I am theatre, there is no aspect that I don't love about it.

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I agree with everything before, but I have to add the spontaneity. No show is EVER the same.

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There's many things, but I love how it's live, and anything can happen. With a show you feel much more connected to the characters and actors than with a movie. I think that's why it always irks me when Broadway actors want to transfer to the screen, because you lose that feeling of being closer to them.

I agree with ZippyJen in that I like when I can take away stories from seeing a show because there were things that happened that were memorable (case in point, I saw the Les Mis tour a while back, and one of the times I saw it, the gun that kills Gavroche in Act II didn't go off at first...you could cut the tension in the room like a knife, because the boy seemed startled by it. He ended up finishing the song and THEN the gun went off...not a good thing by all means, but I can say I was there to see it)

I love the kinship you can have with a show and its players as well. You do feel a personal connection to these characters, and because their performance varies ever so slightly from night to night, unless two people have seen the same performance, they will have different impressions to share with each other.

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I love that it is an interactive experience. The actor gives all he can give, the audience recievs, and gives back on that energy. The more receptive and on the ball the audience is, the better the show will be.

I also love the unpredictability of theatre, there is no second take, you nail it, or you bust it. It is pure emotion and I love being in a room and feeling that radiate around me.

I love how you can feel the emotions radiating from the actors. The connection between the audiance and the characters is just so much more intimate than in movies. I hardly ever cry when watching a film, but I've been caught sobbing during live shows.

Also, I love the accessibility of the performers. I like being able to meet and talk to them after the show.

Lastly, there is no feeling like that of being on stage. The rush cannot be duplicated anywhere else, and it's just the greatest feeling in the world. (IMO)

"I love how you can feel the emotions radiating from the actors. The connection between the audiance and the characters is just so much more intimate than in movies. I hardly ever cry when watching a film, but I've been caught sobbing during live shows.

Also, I love the accessibility of the performers. I like being able to meet and talk to them after the show. "

PERFECTLY PUT! I could not agree more.

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I love that it is real and the actors are all real. No fakeness with computers or anything.

I also love the feel of just being in the theater.

I love theater seats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What I love about theater is it's ability to transport you to another place and time.People think films can do that too, but not in the way seeing a great play or musical live can.Each experience is unique.This year alone the theater has taken me to 1930's Chicago, 1960's Baltimore,The French Riviera,Medeival Japan,1940's Manhattan and late 40's Argentina.I have loved every minute of it.I have met con artists,murderesses,teenyboppers,theives,liars, a dictator and his ambitiuous wife and am constantly suprised and excited by every new character I see.I get all this for the price of a ticket.It is the greatest escape I could hope for.I look forward to all the places I will go next, and the people I will meet in those shows.

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Well, first off I like that its live.

I love the feeling I get when I walk into a theatre and see the curtain and think about what is going to happen on that stage and what has happened.

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unexpected jokes, musics

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