Heh, you think Piazza's audiences were old? Try playhouses...Ragtime at Papermill and esp. Finian's Rainbow at Westport...the average age must have been 90, almost everyone there was in walkers, coughing, I heard some snoring...ulgh. At some points I was even wishing for an audience full of little kids, I don't know which is worse.
Oh and Dre, I know what you mean about parents being worried about meeting BWWers. The first BWWer I met was Emcee, but I think my mom was okay with that, I was going down to the rent set, and she was my facebook friend, so my mom saw her pic and profile and from what I know was okay. But other times my mom knew I was going down to meet ppl, she never said anything, but my sisters told me she would call them panicking and was really really worried. I was like Ma, let's pretend I don't know well enough that they're cool, nice peopole. Do you think I'm meeting them in abandoned alleys? Oh well. Fortunately now I've met a bunch, and am close friends with quite a few, so I think my mom's fine now.
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