Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "The art of theater has always been the art of making do.
Sidle up to any theater practitioner the week before an opening and ask him or her how it's going.
Chances are you'll be told they would sell their soul if it would buy them an extra week or a couple thousand more dollars."
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I think that the value of creativity and theatricality is often under appreciated when held up against the value of expensive and intricate special effects. I wholeheartedly agree with the author of this article.
I completely agree! Charlotte, despite what anyone says, is not the highest-money making/producing theatre city in the world :) I had a teacher one time who said, "Most of us--at least I do--do theatre not because of the day to day work so much as waiting for that one magical moment that you see a scene or a light cue or set change or all of it mixed together and you go 'woah...now that's theatre.'" While this person loved the day-to-day work as well, I agree with her. I find it most effective when I do shows in smaller community theatres where it would seem that the "magic" can't happen because it's such a small, awful space. But when it does happen on such a low budget, crap space, it's truely inspiring. That stays with you much longer than saying, "hey! We got ten MAC500's on that electric!"
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