Reign, p.46
Reign, page 46
"Maybe it is. I don't know," Sid said slowly, and a thought came to him. "Or maybe the only things inside you are the things that are inside all of us."
"I don't know which is worse to think about," Dennis said, looking out and up to where the rows stretched into darkness. "I don't know which is more terrible."
They stood there for a long time. "Come on," Sid said. "We can always come back. And we will." He looked around and shrugged. "It's a theatre, Dennis. Just a theatre and a stage. It's whatever we want it to be."
~ * ~
As they walked out, Sid's words reverberated in Dennis's mind. Whatever we want it to be.
It can only be what we put here, Dennis thought. The empty stage is ours to fill with what we want the audience to see. It's nothing on its own. Only a space we fill. A lifeless space we make come alive.
And he would make it live. For Ann, for all of them, he would bring the light, make it sing, make it live.
From Stage World 1990, Volume LXXIX:
CRADDOCK (Tony win.)
Cast: Steven Peters (Tony win.), Kelly Sears (Tony nom.), William Winslow, Craig DeLucca (Tony nom.), Sarah Wilson
Book and lyrics: Kevin McDonald (Tony nom.)
Music: Teresa Stafford (Tony win.)
Musical & vocal direction/orchestrations: Dexter Colangelo
Set design: Mack Redcay (Tony win.)
Lighting design: Thorne Wilson (Tony win.)
Costume design: Marvella Johnson & Terri Deems-Hamilton (Tony nom.)
Choreography: Ric Pettrucci (Tony nom.)
Direction: Dennis Hamilton (Tony win.)
Produced by The New American Musical Theatre Project
Broadway Opening: October 26, 1990, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (still running) First
Performance: July 27, 1990, The Memorial Theatre, Kirkland, Pa.
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