Realize it or not, when members of the audience receive shaker eggs to participate in making music at Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, they're receiving a dose of health-giving medicine.
According to a two-year study based on interviews and case studies, activities, such as percussion music making and conducting, drawing, painting, and writing poetry help keep people well, relieve symptoms, improve sleep, and aid recovery from depression to chronic pain to strokes.
An article in The Guardian by Mark Brown (July 19, 2017) said British ministers reacted to the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing by noting the per patient cost savings from a decrease in medical consultations and hospital admissions credited to the arts.
Artist Grayson Perry said, "Making and consuming art lifts our spirits and keeps us sane."
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