Often it is playful, shy. More often for me, creative genius bridges, sythesizes, and transforms styles, recognizing its ancestors and building anew from their experiences. Creativity is apparent to children as well as adults. It does not rely upon years of research or experience to be valid, genuine. Instead, the intensely creative artist takes those things we all share and helps us reach new insights about our unique positions in this amazingly consistent universe.
Creativity finds the unique in the universal.
For me and for the Emerson Majestic Theatre, it is important to reach both adults and children with most programs we present. Live performances have been intergenerational events since the first celebrations around the camp fire. Telling stories is a way of entertaining, inspiring, and passing culture and values from generation to generation. The extraordinary success of vaudeville, which gave birth to the golden age of movies, was driven by its family appeal. Until the 1950s almost all popular entertainment was multi-generational.