Today showed me how art is therapy. We were working on the scene before the song "If I Were You" and the song itself. This is the moment when Marco is turned down once again by Veronica and he is reaching rock bottom. His Uncle confronts him and asks why he is not fighting harder to get her. Marco responds with what he has been told by his father and his uncle advises differently. Marco is confused and says "First they tell you to rise above love. Now you say call love back again. How, Uncle? How on earth?" Then his Uncle sings to him perhaps the most beautiful song in the show. "Love's a rare emotion that never touches some. Still, it is as close to God as most of us will ever come," he sings.
As Peter (Dominco) sang this to me, I began to tear up. It spoke to me in ways I had never understood the song. Art can provide a different lens to look at our own life. Yesterday I personally needed to hear that song and I know that these personal emotions will only help me fill out the character I am creating.
The life of an artist asks you to go deep inside yourself to places that you often hide, are too scared to confront or sometimes don't know how to confront. But in accepting the responsibility of an artist, we must be brave, take a deep breathe and open ourselves up. And in that way, it becomes almost therapy. Again and again I am reminded how lucky I am to have the process. - Jason Heymann
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