1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:45,981 --> 00:01:48,942 Coming back to The Point in Dublin 4 00:01:49,026 --> 00:01:52,821 is something that we all knew in our hearts we were getting excited about. 5 00:01:52,904 --> 00:01:57,200 Nobody wanted to talk about it, but it was an undercurrent within our company. 6 00:01:57,284 --> 00:02:01,246 Everybody could feel it, everybody wanted to come home and test the mettle. 7 00:02:01,330 --> 00:02:04,833 So, bringing it back to The Point, where it all started, 8 00:02:04,958 --> 00:02:09,421 was a remarkable, remarkable high, 9 00:02:09,504 --> 00:02:15,177 a great achievement, and it was also a huge challenge. 10 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:21,850 Starting Lord of the Dance there in '96 was a huge, huge time in my life. 11 00:02:21,933 --> 00:02:25,979 It was so emotionally charged and torn 12 00:02:26,063 --> 00:02:28,857 and there was so much going on. 13 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:31,443 If you can imagine the whole world around me 14 00:02:31,526 --> 00:02:33,862 telling me it couldn't be done. 15 00:02:33,945 --> 00:02:36,907 I really felt as if I was pushing an elephant uphill, 16 00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:39,660 that I had laid out something before me 17 00:02:39,743 --> 00:02:44,039 that was seemingly impossible in the eyes of the rest of the world. 18 00:02:44,122 --> 00:02:46,083 I just didn't see that. 19 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:49,544 I just couldn't understand their thinking. 20 00:02:49,628 --> 00:02:52,005 In my mind it was a done deal. 21 00:02:52,089 --> 00:02:56,051 This was going to be way bigger than what I created before, 22 00:02:56,134 --> 00:02:57,511 against all the odds. 23 00:02:57,594 --> 00:03:01,682 And Lord of the Dance became huge and did arenas all over the world. 24 00:03:01,765 --> 00:03:04,434 So, the most important lesson is that 25 00:03:04,518 --> 00:03:07,979 you can't listen to all the naysayers. They're everywhere. 26 00:03:08,063 --> 00:03:10,649 And the more people that told me it couldn't be done, 27 00:03:10,732 --> 00:03:14,111 the closer I know that I am to success. 28 00:03:14,194 --> 00:03:18,281 If you just follow what's in your heart 29 00:03:18,407 --> 00:03:22,619 and you're willing to work hard for it, then nothing's impossible. 30 00:03:22,703 --> 00:03:26,998 I suppose in my own heart I had something to prove going back in there, 31 00:03:27,082 --> 00:03:31,503 back into the lions' den, some 14 and a half years later, 32 00:03:31,628 --> 00:03:33,714 and still getting them on their feet. 33 00:03:33,797 --> 00:03:37,259 That's a moment I'll be proud of for the rest of my life. 34 00:03:41,972 --> 00:03:44,307 In the new Lord of the Dance shows, 35 00:03:44,391 --> 00:03:46,601 some of the bigger tours that we'd been on 36 00:03:46,685 --> 00:03:50,897 have had 12 semi-trucks, five buses and a Gulf stream. 37 00:03:51,022 --> 00:03:57,696 And we've got 200,000 watts of lighting up there now, 38 00:03:57,779 --> 00:04:01,908 including the ACLs, which are literally aircraft landing lights, 39 00:04:01,992 --> 00:04:04,494 which is unheard of in a show like ours. 40 00:04:04,578 --> 00:04:09,458 But we've got, you know, an art form that's ancient, 41 00:04:09,541 --> 00:04:12,210 that's brought up to date and into the future 42 00:04:12,294 --> 00:04:15,213 with really rock'n'rol| lighting and sound, 43 00:04:15,297 --> 00:04:17,966 the greatest costumes and theatrical movements, 44 00:04:18,049 --> 00:04:22,971 the stage, the sound effects, the special effects that we put in there. 45 00:04:23,054 --> 00:04:26,433 All this brings it to a whole new dimension. 46 00:04:26,516 --> 00:04:31,021 It travels like a rock'n'rol| show. In in eight hours, out in four hours. 47 00:04:31,104 --> 00:04:33,648 It has to. We've got to be gone to the next city 48 00:04:33,732 --> 00:04:38,195 because our venues are 12 to 18,000 people. 49 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:42,115 So we go on to each city, we do one night and we're gone. 50 00:04:42,199 --> 00:04:46,036 The next morning we're in a new city and we have to do it all over again. 51 00:04:46,119 --> 00:04:49,498 Every last dollar that comes on that show 52 00:04:49,581 --> 00:04:52,667 is spent on that stage for the audience to see. 53 00:04:52,751 --> 00:04:54,753 It's not wasted on nonsense. 54 00:05:09,768 --> 00:05:14,815 The preparation is done months in advance, years in advance. 55 00:05:14,898 --> 00:05:18,401 Sometimes I'll take a 30-second piece of the show 56 00:05:18,485 --> 00:05:21,238 and work on it for eight hours. 57 00:05:21,321 --> 00:05:26,368 I've got sometimes 50 dancers on stage, 58 00:05:26,451 --> 00:05:29,663 all dancing as fast as they possibly can, 59 00:05:29,746 --> 00:05:33,708 hitting the stage several times a second at exactly the same time. 60 00:05:33,792 --> 00:05:37,879 That's not something you can prepare for on the day or the week before, 61 00:05:37,963 --> 00:05:42,217 or even the month before. It takes months of rehearsal. 62 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:47,138 I think that's one of the things that makes our show so special. 63 00:05:47,264 --> 00:05:52,894 It's unique. There is no other show in the world like that. 64 00:05:53,979 --> 00:05:57,899 Remember when you're out there, we didn't come this far to finish second, 65 00:05:57,983 --> 00:06:00,527 and we're not going to tonight, OK? 66 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:07,784 There can't be a great army without a great general 67 00:06:07,868 --> 00:06:10,996 and there can't be a great general without a great army. 68 00:06:52,954 --> 00:06:54,623 Half an hour before the show, 69 00:06:54,706 --> 00:07:00,128 15 minutes, ten minutes, five minutes, you can feel the energy of the audience. 70 00:07:00,211 --> 00:07:02,797 If you close your eyes, you could literally feel 71 00:07:02,881 --> 00:07:05,926 the energy of your audience waiting, the anticipation. 72 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:10,013 It's hard for people to understand the electricity that's in that room 73 00:07:10,096 --> 00:07:14,392 when you've got 15 or 18,000 people waiting for the show to start. 74 00:07:14,476 --> 00:07:17,896 It's a remarkable experience to soak up that energy, 75 00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:22,359 and for somebody like me who's a performer, waiting backstage to go on, 76 00:07:22,442 --> 00:07:25,737 I feel that. It lifts me. 77 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:30,617 I am so proud. It's like conquering the world, one city at a time, 78 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:34,287 with the greatest dance troupe of all time. 79 00:07:34,913 --> 00:07:37,874 We can't wait for that show to start. 80 00:07:37,958 --> 00:07:41,795 We can't wait for the lights to go down, for the drums to start. 81 00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:46,091 My heart starts beating faster backstage as I'm waiting, 82 00:07:46,174 --> 00:07:48,051 and every dancer's the same. 83 00:07:48,134 --> 00:07:50,011 There's a camaraderie there. 84 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:54,224 Coming back 14 years, five months and three days later 85 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:57,143 to The Point, where it all started, 86 00:07:57,227 --> 00:07:59,646 it doesn't get any better than that. 87 00:08:01,564 --> 00:08:06,194 This is going to be the greatest show of my life, tonight.