Dear Cottage Theatre family,
About once a week, I go out onto center stage and sing a song to our empty auditorium, just to keep the energy in the space alive. Today I sang "Put on a Happy Face" from Bye, Bye Birdie, which was the very first musical I was ever in (a really long time ago!) I think that song popped into my mind due to the lyric "and spread sunshine all over the place!" which seems fitting on this absolutely beautiful sunny day in Cottage Grove.
That's my coronavirus ritual. What's yours?
Though Lane County has now entered Phase 1 of reopening, it will still be quite some time before large group gatherings in confined spaces are permitted and safe again. So we wait. And that leads me to the old "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?" conundrum: if an actor performs on a stage, but there is no audience, does it still count as theatre?
Until we can be together again, be well . . . and spread kindness!
