翻译：hardstick 校订：hardstick 时间轴：hardstick
迈克尔·弗莱利 舞王
Coming back to The Point in Dublin 回到都柏林的原点The Point舞台演出
is something that we all knew in our hearts we were getting excited about. 是我们梦寐以求的一件，让我们兴奋的事情。
Nobody wanted to talk about it, but it was an undercurrent within our company. 没有人愿意谈论这件事，但这是我们公司内部的一股暗流。
Everybody could feel it, everybody wanted to come home and test the mettle. 每个人都能感觉到，每个人都想回家试一下自己的勇气。
So, bringing it back to The Point, where it all started, 所以，回到原点The Point舞台，一切开始的地方，
was a remarkable, remarkable high, 是一个非凡的，非凡的高度，
a great achievement,and it was also a huge challenge. 一个伟大的成就，同时也是一个巨大的挑战。
Starting Lord of the Dance there in '96 was a huge, huge time in my life. 96年在那里拍摄《舞王》是我人生中，非常重要的一段时光。
It was so emotionally charged and torn 它充满了情感，充满了撕裂，
and there was so much going on. 发生了很多事情。
If you can imagine the whole world around me 如果你能想象，我周围的整个世界都在
telling me it couldn't be done. 告诉我，这是不可能的。
I really felt as if I was pushing an elephant uphill, 我真的觉得自己，就像在推一头大象上山，
that I had laid out something before me 在我面前摆出了一件，
that was seemingly impossible in the eyes of the rest of the world. 在其他人看来，似乎是不可能的事情。
I just didn't see that. 我只是没看出来。
I just couldn't understand their thinking. 我只是无法理解，他们的想法。
In my mind it was a done deal. 在我看来，这是板上钉钉的事。
This was going to be way bigger than what I created before, 这将比我之前的作品宏大得多，
against all the odds. 尽管困难重重。
And Lord of the Dance became huge and did arenas all over the world. 《舞王》变得巨大，在世界各地的大舞台演出。
So, the most important lesson is that 所以，最重要的一课是，
you can't listen to all the naysayers.They're everywhere. 你不能听从所有唱反调的人。他们无处不在。
And the more people that told me it couldn't be done, 越多的人告诉我，这是不可能的，
the closer I know that I am to success. 我就越知道，我离成功越来越近。
If you just follow what's in your heart 如果你追随你的初衷，
and you're willing to work hard for it,then nothing's impossible. 并愿意为之努力，那么没有什么是不可能的。
I suppose in my own heart I had something to prove going back in there, 我想在我自己的内心深处，我想要证明一些东西，
back into the lions' den,some 14 and a half years later, 回到那里，回到狮子的巢穴，大约14年半后，
and still getting them on their feet. 仍然让他们站起来。
That's a moment I'll be proud of for the rest of my life. 这是我余生，都会为之骄傲的时刻。
In the new Lord of the Dance shows, 在新的《舞蹈之王》演出中，
some of the bigger tours that we'd been on 以及我们参加过的一些大型巡演，
have had 1 2 semi-trucks, five buses and a Gulfstream. 拥有了12辆半卡车，5辆大客车和一架湾流私人飞机。
And we've got 200,000 watts of lighting up there now, 我们现在有20万瓦的照明，
including the ACLs, which are literally aircraft landing lights, 包括ACLs，也就是飞机着陆灯，
which is unheard of in a show like ours. 这在我们这样的节目中，是闻所未闻的。
But we've got, you know,an art form that's ancient, 但是我们有，你知道，一种古老的艺术形式，
that's brought up to date and into the future 通过真正的摇滚灯光和声音，
with really rock'n'roll lighting and sound, 最伟大的服装和戏剧动作，舞台，音响效果，
the greatest costumes and theatrical movements, 我们加入的特殊效果，
the stage, the sound effects, the special effects that we put in there. 被带到现代和未来。
All this brings it to a whole new dimension. 所有这些技术，都将它带入了一个全新的层面。
It travels like a rock'n'roll show. In in eight hours, out in four hours. 它就像一场摇滚演出。提前八小时进场，演出后，要用了四小时撤场。
It has to. We've got to be gone to the next city 这是必须的。我们必须去下一个城市，
because our venues are 12 to 18000 people. 因为我们的场馆，有1万2千到1万8千人。
So we go on to each city,we do one night and we're gone. 所以我们去每个城市，演一晚就走了。
The next morning we're in a new city and we have to do it all over again. 第二天早上，我们来到了一个新的城市，我们不得不从头再来。
Every last dollar that comes on that show 演出的每一分钱，
is spent on that stage for the audience to see. 都花在舞台上，供观众观赏。
It's not wasted on nonsense. 不要把钱浪费在，不必要的噱头上。
The preparation is done months in advance, years in advance. 准备工作是提前几个月，甚至几年完成的。
Sometimes I'll take a 30-second piece of the show 有时候我会花上8个小时，来完成一个
and work on it for eight hours. 只有30秒的节目。
I've got sometimes 50 dancers on stage, 我有时在舞台上有50个舞者，
all dancing as fast as they possibly can, 他们都以最快的速度跳舞，
hitting the stage several times a second at exactly the same time. 每秒钟在同一时间，击中舞台几次。
That's not something you can prepare for on the day or the week before, 这不是你可以在前一天或前一周，甚至前一个月
or even the month before. It takes months of rehearsal. 就能准备好的事情。这需要几个月的排练。
I think that's one of the things that makes our show so special. 我想这也是我们节目，如此特别的原因之一。
It's unique. There is no other show in the world like that. 这是独一无二的。世界上再也没有这样的节目了。
Remember when you're out there, we didn't come this far to finish second, 当你站在那里的时候，请记住，我们走了这么远并不是为了获得第二名，
and we're not going to tonight, OK? 我们今晚也不会去，好吗?
There can't be a great army without a great general 没有伟大的将军，就不会有伟大的军队，
and there can't be a great general without a great army. 没有伟大的军队，就不会有伟大的将军。
Half an hour before the show, 演出前半小时，
15 minutes, ten minutes, five minutes,you can feel the energy of the audience. 15分钟，10分钟，5分钟，你都能感受到观众的能量。
If you close your eyes, you could literally feel 如果你闭上眼睛，你能真切地感受到
the energy of your audience waiting,the anticipation. 你的观众等待的能量，和他们的期待。
It's hard for people to understand the electricity that's in that room 当你有1万5千或1万8千人，在等待表演开始时，
when you've got 15 or 18 000 people waiting for the show to start. 人们很难理解，房间里的激情澎湃。
It's a remarkable experience to soak up that energy, 吸收那种能量，是一种非凡的体验，
and for somebody like me who's a performer, waiting backstage to go on, 对于像我这样，在后台等待表演的表演者来说，
I feel that. It lifts me. 我有这种感觉。它鼓舞了我。
I am so proud. It's like conquering the world, one city at a time, 我很自豪。就像征服世界一样，一次征服一座城市，
with the greatest dance troupe of all time. 用有史以来，最伟大的舞蹈团。
We can't wait for that show to start. 我们都等不及演出开始了。
We can't wait for the lights to go down,for the drums to start. 我们不能等灯光熄灭，等鼓声响起。
My heart starts beating faster backstage as I'm waiting, 我在后台等的时候心跳加速，
and every dancer's the same. 每个舞者都一样。
There's a camaraderie there. 这里有一种同志情谊。
Coming back 14 years, five months and three days later 14年零5个月零3天后回到
to The Point, where it all started, 原点The Point舞台。一切开始的地方，
it doesn't get any better than that. 没有什么，比这更好的了。
This is going to be the greatest show of my life, tonight. 今晚，将是我这辈子，最棒的表演。
翻译：hardstick 校订：hardstick 时间轴：hardstick