A PLACE FOR US! BE A PART OF IT!
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The story is simple and many of you know it already. Theatre is food for the soul and our theatre project, centered in Latrobe PA, will attempt to feed the soul of our region by providing the kind of theatre that can sustain and nourish people through the most difficult of times.
To those who have already given, thank you. Those words feel inadequate, but they are the only ones I have. Thank you.
Thank you for believing that this project is important.
Thank you for supporting the project either by donating yourselves or encouraging others to donate. (Both have proved to be very helpful.)
Thank you for understanding that the kind of theatre we will be producing is increasingly necessary as the quality of our civil discourse seems to be deteriorating.
We are in the business of reminding people what it means to be human beings, and we do so by choosing the kinds of plays that contain lines like these:
"Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so so smart, or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness To surrender dreams - -this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness! And maddest of all - to see life as it is and not as it should be!"
"Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable."
"Life is kind of beautiful if you let it come to you. But the trouble is, people forget that. I know I did. I was right in the thick of it: fighting and scratching and clawing. Regular jungle. One day it just kind of struck me: I wasn’t having any fun. Just relaxed. Thirty-five years ago, that was. And I’ve been a happy man ever since."
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
From the earliest Greek plays (“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive”) to Shakespeare ("The course of true love never did run smooth") all the way to the present ("Even when the dark comes crashing through, and when you need a friend to carry you, when you're broken on the ground, you will be found.")
Lines like those can inspire and nourish. We will produce those kinds of comedies, dramas, and musicals. Why? You've heard me say it before...because it's important that we do.
Now...do I want you to give more than you already have? No. I am already embarrassed that I have asked for so much. Then what? The contemporary musical "Dear Even Hansen" says it nicely: "...when you need a friend to carry you, when you're broken on the ground, you will be found." I believe that to be true, but how will they know where you are to find you? There is a lot of ground out there. Well...YOU will tell them. That is what you can do for me. Shout it out that this is a project that needs to be supported. Shout that YOU have supported it and encourage anyone else you know to either support it or pass the word to someone who might. Somewhere out there (another song lyric?) are people who have the wherewithal to help us. I give you this from John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation:
"I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United State, the gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people."
And so I ask you for another favor. Shout it out. "The Cabaret Theatre in Latrobe PA will be good for theatre practitioners, for the community of Latrobe, for Westmoreland County, and for the entire region. Support it in whatever way you can." If we somehow find the right six people, our message will get to some people who can easily make this dream a reality.
I close with the phrase which, as I said earlier, doesn't work very well, but which must be used, because it's all we have...
Thank you.
John
To those who have already given, thank you. Those words feel inadequate, but they are the only ones I have. Thank you.
Thank you for believing that this project is important.
Thank you for supporting the project either by donating yourselves or encouraging others to donate. (Both have proved to be very helpful.)
Thank you for understanding that the kind of theatre we will be producing is increasingly necessary as the quality of our civil discourse seems to be deteriorating.
We are in the business of reminding people what it means to be human beings, and we do so by choosing the kinds of plays that contain lines like these:
"Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so so smart, or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness To surrender dreams - -this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness! And maddest of all - to see life as it is and not as it should be!"
"Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable."
"Life is kind of beautiful if you let it come to you. But the trouble is, people forget that. I know I did. I was right in the thick of it: fighting and scratching and clawing. Regular jungle. One day it just kind of struck me: I wasn’t having any fun. Just relaxed. Thirty-five years ago, that was. And I’ve been a happy man ever since."
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
From the earliest Greek plays (“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive”) to Shakespeare ("The course of true love never did run smooth") all the way to the present ("Even when the dark comes crashing through, and when you need a friend to carry you, when you're broken on the ground, you will be found.")
Lines like those can inspire and nourish. We will produce those kinds of comedies, dramas, and musicals. Why? You've heard me say it before...because it's important that we do.
Now...do I want you to give more than you already have? No. I am already embarrassed that I have asked for so much. Then what? The contemporary musical "Dear Even Hansen" says it nicely: "...when you need a friend to carry you, when you're broken on the ground, you will be found." I believe that to be true, but how will they know where you are to find you? There is a lot of ground out there. Well...YOU will tell them. That is what you can do for me. Shout it out that this is a project that needs to be supported. Shout that YOU have supported it and encourage anyone else you know to either support it or pass the word to someone who might. Somewhere out there (another song lyric?) are people who have the wherewithal to help us. I give you this from John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation:
"I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United State, the gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people."
And so I ask you for another favor. Shout it out. "The Cabaret Theatre in Latrobe PA will be good for theatre practitioners, for the community of Latrobe, for Westmoreland County, and for the entire region. Support it in whatever way you can." If we somehow find the right six people, our message will get to some people who can easily make this dream a reality.
I close with the phrase which, as I said earlier, doesn't work very well, but which must be used, because it's all we have...
Thank you.
John
Organizer
John J. Carosella
Organizer
Jeannette, PA
