The mission of Watertown Lyric Youth Theater (LYT) is to enrich the lives of youth by creating a positive environment to experience live theater; stimulate the imagination and creativity of young people; and, to develop life skills though participating in the performing arts.
So what is it that makes Community Theater so special? Well first off, it's theater, which includeseverything that implies. It's a live show, right there in front of the audience. There's no camera tricks used to create the illusion, though plenty of other secrets and craft are employed to bring you the magic. There also isn't any such thing as a re-take. You get exactly what comes out of weeks of long, hard work: miscues, flubbed lines and all. Yet some how, in the end, the audience is transported across space and time to a different world where, at least for a couple of hours, their problems are left behind.
But they aren't professional actors and singers there on that stage. They're teachers, laborers,inisters and factory workers.They're us: members of our community. They have responsibilities, jobs and families not so different from our own.That makes these people more recognizable; not just in the mall and grocery stores, but in our hearts. The audience knows that given a lack of inhibitions, and a secret, revealed talent, that could be them on that stage.Suddenly every audience member is the leading lady or man. That is real magic. But Community Theater has even more than that.
