Laughter was continually present in the scenes he directed from The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro . But what was also present, and of much more importance to Miller was the constant realization that these students and faculty were seeing something in a new light. In showing the Blair students how to cut through to the real, Miller left, perhaps, his most lasting mark. If you're going to be any good at all at directing, you have to have sensitivity and imagination, because that's what it's about. Singers are somewhat different in that there are vocal skills that have to be acquired, and above all developed, and they don't just simply happen.
Voices ripen and cure.
A lot of people think the same about actors, that you need to be in the studio, developing. I think a beautiful voice is something that is quite useful in order to have a future in theatre, but otherwise, basically the best actors I have known have come from nowhere. One of my favorite actors was a man named Michael Hordern, who played Lear for me three times. He had been in insurance. He had one of the most beautiful voices around, and he was an intelligent, funny performer.