I think Elvis said it best

This is why he's King after all ...

"A little less conversation, a little more action please
All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me
Satisfy me baby

Baby close your eyes and listen to the music
Drifting through a summer breeze
It's a groovy night and I can show you how to use it
Come along with me and put your mind at ease

A little less conversation, a little more action please
All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me
Satisfy me baby

Come on baby I'm tired of talking
Grab your coat and let's start walking
Come on, come on Come on, come on Come on, come on
Don't procrastinate, don't articulate
Girl it's getting late, gettin' upset waitin' around

A little less conversation, a little more action please
All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me
Satisfy me baby"

I love the proactive and dissonent conversations on the web about the state of theatre on comment boxes and blogs. I love participating in them, as well, but what I really want to do is take some action the only way I know how especially when I'm sensing too much conversation going down and not enough proactive resolution .... All I can do is to make good theatre and make it great, to quote Rob Kozlowski, a local playwright in town. I can't care about anybody else and what they'll say about my efforts. I can't compare myself to anybody else and I can't listen to those who choose to put GreyZelda in the all-consuming box. All I can do is what I love to do, what I'm trained to do and what I must do.

If people want to come to our theatricals, I will welcome them with open arms and a smile. If they don't, that's fine, too. I know the rest of our company feels that way. We will march to our individual drum, we will dance to our type of music and if others want to be there to witness our cadence, to witness our whirling dervish, then we will open the circle to say "Thank you and welcome." We want the people to be there, but you have to be ok when they're not. The artist must love the process enough to trust that the people will be there for the final stage if the passion is there. The audience will always sense that and feel that spark of magick for that's what the audience craves. That's what I crave, anyway, and I'm an audience member.

Word of mouth is powerful once that magick is witnessed. The bloggers are starting to dialogue beautifully on Chicago's theatre scene and it inspires me. The people I've linked to the right of these words are, indeed, doing it.

RebeccaZ