Safe place...

When theatre has grabbed your heart one of the safest places to be in the world is the stage....assuming of course a theatre light doesn't come crashing down, or the stage gets waxed by mistake making it slippery as hell sending an actor flying into the orchestra pit, or a new acting intern doesn't play with the Scene Designer's nail gun as if it were a toy, or a props mistress doesn't tip over a huge bucket of marbles across the stage, or acting interns singing in a chorus don't find a way to hang a rope from the proscenium arch somehow late one night to swing on that causes a near disaster the next night during a performance, or the new falling raindrop machine doesn't malfunction nearly drowning the Scene and Lighting Designers working on a set, or...well...uh...ahem...like I said, for those of us who gave our hearts to theatre the stage really IS the safest, best, most fun, most wonderful place in the world to be because you see...

There's no business like show business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing...
Nowhere can you get that happy feeling

There's no people like show people
They smile when they are low
Yesterday they told you, you would not go far
That night you open and there you are
Next day you are a star
Let's go on with the show!

The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props
The audience that lifts you when you're down
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops...
The opening when your heart beats like a drum

The closing when the customers don't come

There's no people like show people
They smile when they are low...
You may be stranded out in the cold
But you still wouldn't change it for a sack of gold
Let's go on with the show, let's go on with the show!