"In the professional theater, audiences are known to have been swept out of their individual realities and transported to imaginary places and to imaginary times that appear as real as any place or time out of their own experience. I once was well acquainted with such occurrences. On more than a few occasions I was present, on one side of the footlights or the other, when actors and audience conspired to make magic. Time and time again I witnessed some unknown force take hold and keep us transfixed to the evening’s end, then release us gently and send us home with gifts of remembrances to last us a lifetime." —Sidney Poitier, Measure of a Man