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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:25:53 -0400
From: heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com (Christopher Hudert)
Subject: Re: PUPT: children's theater


I'm going to try to keep this fairly short (for me) since my modem burned
up (probably from too much sarcastic acid running through it) and I have
lots to reply to....
 Mary, yes, Family Theater is a good way to describe to the layman what we
are trying to do. Unfortunately we do have to inform our audiences and
differentiate between Adult and Children's/Family theater as they often no
longer seem to make and educated decision for themselves. (Hmm, "The
Exorcist" with puppets. Let's take little Jonny and Jane, it says
puppets...)
 Dorlis, I don't agree that all theater companys should do both as their
interest and assests may not allow them to do both and do them well. I
would much rather have them choose one to do well than to choose both and
end up doing them both poorly. It sounds like the problem with some of the
junk coming into the theater is not the time allowed (55 min) but the fact
that there is too much filler and not enough substance.  I would also
venture to guess that they have cut out any semblance of conflict or evil
character in fear of offending .01% of the audience. No wonder they are
pandering junk with only a skeleton of a plot.
 David, yes this "Hungry like a wolf" approach is indeed part of the reason
you succeed. If I were hungrier I guess I would be more agressive about it.
But with an overhead much lower than yours I don't need to be (takes less
to fill me up, so to speak).  I certianly didn't mean to imply that you
didn't hussle or that it was easy for you. But your illustration did
further my point. If it were easy we'd all be making $70K and turning away
work.

Well, that was fairly short. It looks like this thread has about run out.
Now I can move on to throw my 2 cents worth into the training/backgroung
thread.

Christopher




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