

And I burst into tears, as did everybody around me. Garth Fagan's choreography or the gorgeous choral singing from all of the South Africans, and these giant puppets would be coming into our rooms, and I think that we kind of knew then that this was something really special, before we had an audience, just we, the people creating it, were very excited.Īnd then we get to the first night and the audience just instantly starts screaming and standing and clapping and we couldn't hear anything. And we all would be doing our work but people would just start traveling and visiting between the rooms and their mouths would be gasping, you'd be gasping. Taymor: We had four or five rooms: the main acting room, a choreographic room, a choral room and then a puppet room. On when director Julie Taymor knew the production would be as special as she'd hoped
