Robert Viagas

It needed to be in an off-Broadway house.

This is really an off-Broadway show.

They should never have brought it to Broadway.

There was a Pulitzer Prize winning play a few years ago called Driving Miss Daisy.

Driving Miss Daisy only has three characters in it.

When they did it originally off-Broadway, it was in a tiny little theater, a tiny little, a very intimate off-Broadway theater.

When it went on tour, it played these big houses that were designed for musicals.

And I remember talking to the actors who were performing in it, and they said, we really have to open up our performances.

We have to use our bodies more.

We have to project our voices a lot more.

We have to make the characters broader so that audiences could see

And they could experience what the characters were like.

I mean, look at the difference between stage performing and movie performing.

In stage performing, people, you know, they're sitting out in the house.

They're sitting some distance away.

Whereas in movies, movies, a camera can get right into the actor's face and you can see the actor like lifting one eyebrow.

to express something.

If that actor, a lot of times when movie and TV actors try to appear on Broadway, they'll give you that little eyebrow raise in the middle of a performance and people will be able to see it out to about the fourth row.

And everybody else in the house were like, why isn't he doing anything?

In the old days, they used to have a style of acting that was called Del Sartre.