Relate Theatre to your Life

One of my major passions in life has always been participating in sports. Mainly softball, volleyball, track, and football in the backyard with my brothers. Theatre can be seen as a part of these because, for instance, when a football player gets a touchdown the dance or whatever they do at the end can be seen as acting. They are performing a little skit in front of an audience that is there to see them perform, as it is with any sport really. My family is not the type of family to really go out and see a production on Broadway anytime soon. My father probably would never have even dared to consider seeing a musical until I was in them for high school, it is just not his scene I guess you could say. I am from a really little town filled with farms, cows, and not much money to go around. The people in my community have never really been involved in musicals much at all. Until this one young man from my church decided to put on a cantata, small musical for Easter, at my local church. It was a huge success and everyone who was in it and came to witness it loved everything about it. This got a lot of people in my community to see what the theatre can do for you spiritually, it can literally change you form the inside out. Mostly all of my friends from high school were involved in theatre in some aspect or another. Many of them were even more passionate about it then I am, if that is at all possible to believe.
I am also passionate about worshiping God through singing and dancing, I absolutely love it. Singing is one of my greatest passions above everything else, I do it as much as I possibly can. Anyone that is around me enough knows this. Theatre can definitely relate to worship through singing because when you are singing your facial expressions show the emotions that you are feeling. If you are singing a depressing song that is expressing the loss of a loved one, your face is going to be solemn. Also, when you are excited and singing a very happy song, you are going to be smiling and dancing around. The way you present yourself through acting while singing makes the song come across to the audience so much better than without it. I at one time thought about becoming a gospel singer legitimately, but I decided against it. For the reasons that I am not that good of a singer in the first place and I would not like to be in the spot light like that. Although who knows where my life is going because that could still be a possibility, but for now I am content on not being in the limelight.
I am also very passionate about shopping, call me your typical girl. When you are shopping for clothes you are usually looking to buy clothes that are going to express your individuality. Clothes that you like and catch your eye are the clothes that you are going to buy when you see them in a store. Likewise, theatre is expressing your individuality as well as shopping is. When you are acting, singing, decorating a set, you are expressing you and how you view things. You can either buy bright colors and act in a bright and cheerful way or you can wear dark colors and act in a depressing way. Both of these mainly consisting on your mood and how you are feeling at the particular moment of course.
Another way to relate theatre to life is the example of people watching. Everyone does people watching AT LEAST once a day, whether they will admit it or not, everyone does it. We are Americans, we are always in each other business and gossiping about it. Everyone cares what the person next to them is doing and then we “act” like we were not watching them. This is where the aspect of theatre comes into play, we act like we were not watching them and that we did not do anything at all. There are so many different ways in which theatre is involved in out lives, we just have to take the time to realize that it effects all of us equally and greatly.