It was playing the tape that Michael Bennett recorded one night with a bunch of friends who tried to make it on Broadway - their own stories. He took these stories & created this play - created the songs. It was very interesting really. And then it was great to see how the play was still going & how people were trying out for these part, kinda like art imitating life - for real!...

He was a ballet dancer in his prime. They showed pictures of him, in black & white, & he looked majestic standing there holding up two beautiful ballerinas. It then showed how the years of his career had blown his knees out - the thing he loved to do the most took its toll on his body. He then said these words & they just were pretty powerful to me... I instandly grabbed a piece of paper & wrote down what he said:
Ask the Olympic athlete whose shoulder goes out if it was worth it when he won that metal.
Ask the farmer with callouses on his hands if it was worth it to have crops grow.
For me, it was totally worth the result of my knees for what I did.
You never know what tomorrow holds. Every day was opening night....
AND CLOSING NIGHT...
Because you dont know if you'll make it back to the stage again the next evening...
I just loved that attitude....making sure you do what you love in life because you dont know what each day holds... will you get another shot tomorrow? Who knows...
Where are you in your life? Is what you're doing worth it? .... I just think so many people have taken a dream, a passion, a love & pushed it aside...
Whatever you do - wherever you are in life...I think its a question we can all ask ourselves...
Is it worth it? ...Because we dont know when its our closing night...
That sounds like a very interesting movie. I saw Chorus Line and I felt bad for all those ppl who got cut throughout the movie.
ReplyDeleteSound pretty interesting. I just can't get into the show You think you can dance. I am not sure why I can't..
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Oh friend,
ReplyDeleteSo true. We must live like it's closing night!!! So powerful, so true!!
Love you friend,
Dawn
What a beautiful message! I love it
ReplyDeleteOh, this is a great post!! I ask myself that everyday as I go to work at my mundane job. Not worth it.
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Shanna
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Very interesting!!! Thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteWow! That is certainly a thought to get deep in my brain. Thanks for sharing -- I hope you are having a good day!
ReplyDeleteI love Netflix for those documentaries, too! Elijah is way into the history channel ones, and the mythbusters series :)
ReplyDeleteI feel like I am totally living my dream, and I am so blessed to be able to say that!
Great quote!
I'm a sucker for documentaries too, thanks for the heads up on this one!
ReplyDeleteTyce is such an amazing dancer, but the cockiness is of NO surprise to me!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE documentaries TOO!!! and like the "biography" show lol
I am hard core passionate about becoming a teacher :) 1st grade preferably!!!! or even specializing in reading disorders such as dyslexia
WOW!!!! This was profound!!! Thank you soooo much for sharing this!! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a really powerful quote!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds really interesting and I adore that quote!!
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