美国著名的电影明星帕特·奥布瑞恩在踏入影视界之前,只是一名默默无闻的话剧演员。一次,他参加了一部名为《向上,向上》的话剧表演。帕特对自己很有信心,他的表演也很到位,可是观众似乎对这样的剧本不感兴趣,第一次演出,剧场里的座位上只到了不足1/3的观众。后来的观众更是越来越少,剧团难以为继,只好将表演场地搬到一个偏僻廉价的小剧院。这样的地方,观众自然寥寥无几,门票收入减少,演员们的薪水也每况愈下。一时间,一种消极的情绪在剧团里蔓延开来,演员们都感觉前途一片渺茫,表演也不再像以前那样卖力了,甚至有人私下 Pat O’Brien, a famous movie star in the United States, was only an obscure comedian before he entered the film industry. Once, he attended a drama called “Upward, Upward”. Pat was confident of himself and his performance was in place, but the audience seemed not to be interested in such a script. For the first time, there were fewer than one-third of the audience in the seats in the theater. Later, the audience is less and less, the troupe unsustainable, had to move the venue to a remote cheap little theater. In such places, there are few viewers, ticket sales are reduced and performers are getting worse off. For a time, a negative mood spread in the troupe, the actors feel the future is slim, the show is no longer as hard as before, and even some people privately