Robert Viagas

It's interesting how unanimous audiences can be.

When something funny happens, you don't like get half the audience laughing and the other half of the audience growling.

Audiences tend to pick up energy from the other people and they tend to reach unanimity.

Well, you know, I've been going to see things since I was a kid.

And a lot of other people, I think they approach it.

They feel like they're fish in water.

They don't realize that they're in something, that they're part of something.

And yet it's an incredible experience.

experience for people.

You respond differently when you're part of an audience.

And I noticed this early on.

Now, I think I may have mentioned that I've seen more than 2000 shows just on Broadway alone from my years at Playbill, but I've been a member of movie audiences, television audiences, et cetera, et cetera.

And I'm always acutely aware of how I'm experiencing things, not just as myself, but as part of an audience.

And you didn't laugh because like, I don't get it.

But then like one second later, you get it.

And it's the audience that told you that that thing was funny.

And so you gather that kind of energy.

I mean, look at these people who pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars to see Taylor Swift.

Look at Taylor Swift.

could stay home they could they could watch her videos they could listen to her albums but they feel that there is some kind of special electricity that they get from being around other taylor swift fans being in the presence of taylor swift being having that experience as as a group stephen king wrote a really interesting book uh called dance macabre about