From the second you started school, you heard about the seemingly all important senior actor showcase. In fact, to this day many people choose their school based on whether or not it has a showcase. Now schools are showcasing in LA, NY, Chicago and DC amongst many other cities and adult actors well out of school are paying good money to participate in similar opportunities. The import that’s put on them is ruining careers before they even have a chance to start.
Possessing a particular goal or aspiration is a gift. For many, it is a struggle to ever find a passion so intense that you spend your everyday working towards it. Often, ambitions are germinated in infant years, slowly spiralling into realistic aims in later life. If you’re privileged enough to hold such a coveted life-intention, you’ll usually clasp onto it, for years
For the past ten years on average, there were 26 producer names above the title on the Tony Award for Best New Musical. Some of the names were for a group or business entity with more than one person. This deluge of producer names became infamous in 2006 with Spring Awakening and an article mocking the lead producers for their “849 producers” (there were actually 27 producers.) With dozens of people holding titles that imply leadership positions, who is in charge? What are they doing? And does it really take 26 people?
