Seuss!

it takes a community

Dr. Seuss imagines the fantastic:

human traits writ large in his wonderful creatures,

all within a world wholesome at the heart,

a place to be a maker with our thoughts,

how wondrous the play, 

not only in character, script, and song,

but in what our community creates 

with our bodies, our hands, our souls,

the vision and effort 
directors, musicians, choreographer, set designers, and techies

add to the vision and effort the actors bring with their full selves:
the confidence, the doubt, 

the ability that yearns to release into wholeness and success,

the vision and efforts parents bring 

who envision what costumes, hair, and make-up can be,

and who make it real,

so that what actor and audience see together

can animate the world of Dr. Seuss

and have it be real, onstage, for a time--

brief by the clock

yet amazing to the audience

and thus amazing to each of us

who should then know the power

with which each can “think” and be. 

by Henry H. Walker

February 4, ’15