Theatre (in American English usually theater) is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”) and θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).
Modern Western theatre derives in large measure from ancient Greek drama, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre scholar Patrice Pavis defines theatricality, theatrical language, stage writing, and the specificity of theatre as synonymous expressions that differentiate theatre from the other performing arts, literature, and the arts in general.
Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and former model, best known for his roles in Step Up (2006), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Dear John (2010), The Vow (2012), and 21 Jump Street (2012). He has also appeared in films such as Coach Carter (2005), She's the Man (2006), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), and Fighting (2009). While mostly known for his dramatic performances in Dear John and The Vow, he has since ventured into more comedic roles.
Tatum was born and raised in Cullman, Alabama. His mother, Kay (née Faust), is an airline worker, and his father, Glenn Tatum, worked in construction. His ancestry includes Irish, French and Native American. Tatum's family moved to Mississippi when he was six, and he grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River, where he lived in a rural setting.
Tatum was athletic while growing up, playing football, soccer, track, baseball, and performing martial arts; he has said that "girls were always [his] biggest distraction in school." As a child, he practiced wuzuquan kung fu under the lineage of 10th dan Grandmaster Chee Kim Thong. Tatum spent most of his teenage years in the Tampa, Florida area and initially attended Gaither High School before going to Tampa Catholic High School. He graduated in 1998 and was voted most athletic. Afterward, Tatum attended Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia on a football scholarship, but dropped out. He returned home and started working odd jobs. US Weekly reported that around this time Tatum began working as a stripper at a local nightclub, under the name "Chan Crawford." In 2010, he told an Australian newspaper that he would like to make a movie about his experiences as a stripper. He later moved to Miami, where he was discovered on the street by a model talent scout.
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known by the stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor known for his early comedic roles, most notably his performance as the title character of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). Keaton is also famous for his dramatic portrayal of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). He has since appeared in various other films, including Pixar's Cars (2006) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
Keaton, the youngest of seven children, was born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and lived in Robinson Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. His father, George A. Douglas, worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, and his mother, Leona Elizabeth (née Loftus), a homemaker, came from a Scots-Irish community in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Keaton was raised in a large Catholic family and attended Montour High School in Pennsylvania. He studied speech for two years at Kent State before dropping out and moving to Pittsburgh.
An unsuccessful attempt at comedy led Keaton to working as a TV cameraman at public television station WQED (TV) in Pittsburgh. Keaton first appeared on TV in the Pittsburgh-based public television programs, including "Where the Heart Is" and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1975), as one of the "Flying Zucchini Brothers." He also served as a full-time production assistant on the show. (In 2004, following Fred Rogers' death, Keaton hosted the PBS memorial tribute program, Fred Rogers: Everybody's Favorite Neighbor.) Keaton also worked as an actor in Pittsburgh theatre; he played the role of Rick in the Pittsburgh premiere of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones with the Pittsburgh Poor Players.
Sie setzen jeden Abend deine Maske auf
und sie spielen
wie die Rolle es verlangt.
An das Theater haben sie ihr Herz verkauft
sie stehn oben und die unten schaun sie an.
Sie sind König
Bettler
Clown im Rampenlicht
doch wie's tief in ihnen aussieht
sieht man nicht:
Theater
Theater
der Vorhang geht auf
dann wird die Bühne zur Welt.
Theater
Theater
das ist wie ein Rausch
und nur der Augenblick zählt.
Wie ein brennendes Fieber
Wie ein Stück Glückseeligkeit
ein längst vergessner Traum
erwacht zum Leben
Theater
Theater
gehaßt und geliebt
Himmel und Hölle zugleich.
Und der Clown
der muß lachen
auch wenn ihm zum weinen ist
und das Publikum sieht nicht
daß eine Träne fließt
und der Held
der muß stark sein
und kämpfen für das Recht
doch oft ist ihm vor Lampenfieber schlecht.
Alles ist nur Theater
und ist doch auch Wirklichkeit
Theater - das Tor zur Phantasie.
Theater
Theater
ihr schenkt uns Applaus
wir geben alles für euch
Und lachen und weinen für euch
My life is a musical
I know how to put on a pretty pathetic show
I hide backstage, keep the curtains closed
'Cause I'm scared, I'm scared
I'm getting pretty good at feeding them the lines they like
But I don't recognize the girl that I face each night
I can compromise 'till I'm convinced it's right
What happened to the girl who could overlook the world?
She never gave a second thought
To what other people thought
What happened to the dream of rejecting routine?
'Cause it never worked for me
I'm gonna burn this theater down
And pray to God for the strength to help me face the crowd
I wanna live like I lost the script
And scream every line like this is it
They say all the world's a stage
Rewriting you identity is all the rage
Well, next act please, I'd like to change
I don't really like pretending this way
What happened to the girl who could overlook the world?
She never gave a second thought
To what other people thought
What happened to the dream of rejecting routine?
'Cause it never worked for me
I'm gonna burn this theater down
And pray to God for the strength to help me face the crowd
I wanna live like I lost the script
And scream every line like this is it
I'm gonna burn this theater down
And pray to God for the strength to help me face the crowd
I wanna live like I lost the script
And scream every line like this is it
And the sad thins is
We're all in on the action
We're holding our breath
Waiting for a reaction
You play your part
And I'll be playing with matches
And if you'd like a show
You can follow the ashes
I'm gonna burn this theater down
And pray to God for the strength to help me face the crowd
I wanna live like I lost the script
And scream every line like this is it
I'm gonna burn this theater down
And pray to God for the strength to help me face the crowd
I wanna live like I lost the script
And scream every line like
I see the world in a swirl of hues,
but my favorite color is shame.
Tonight the sky is painted...
Tonight the sky is painted... melancholy
and the wind sings songs as if it would lament
some tragedy on the far side of the world.
We're in the deep pockets of my mind,
where I lust after blood and pain.
Tonight the sky is painted...
Tonight the sky is painted... melancholy
and the wind sings songs as if it would lament
some tragedy on the far side of the world.
I am I and the world is a woman
from who I must take take take.
In an act of lust, no, in an act of pride
And I am damned, but can I be saved?
but can I be saved?...saved
Tonight the sky is painted...(echo)
Tonight the sky is painted...(echo)
Tonight the sky is painted...(Tonight the sky is)
Melancholy and the wind sings songs as if it would lament
some tragedy on the far side of the world.
And the wind sings songs as if it would lament