Thanks for answering Fredi!
"this - right now
thrilling audiences all over the world
seeing the world and getting paid for it
doing what you love to do and always knowing within yourself that you gave it your all ("what I did for love...")"
That I agree with 100 percent, as with the work idea. I know it's work. This just happens to be a work where I can explore other "people", characters whether it be on stage in an audition or just sitting quietly reading a play. This work allows you to step a bit beyond the boundries of self into an "expansion/extension of you" persay. This work excersises you mentally, physically and emotionally in incomparable ways.
I completely understand what your saying though, I mean I'm moving to New York with a little more than $4000 in my pocket, on a whim, with a minimum wage job and with intention to add another one to it, with no assurance that I will find a roomate or apartement, no certainty on whether or not I'm getting in to any school at all, no real connection or idea of where to begin a "career" or get my foot in the door in New York. All I have really is determination and will to take a chance. Still I say bring it on!
Also about the business being business, by no means did what you say sound b****y or harsh; lol I live in Los Angeles, you don't need to tell me twice. The world of pretense and fake smiles NEVER ends here. When I told my high school drama teacher that this was what I wanted to do all my life he warned me never to get comfortable with someone in the same business as you. It's all part of the game, you may make aquaintences but you will never make friends, loyalty and honesty are double edge swords in this game. Once in a blue moon you might find something to defy that, but more often than not your own your own and it's everyman for himself. Totally, I'm defenitly not looking at Broadway through rose colored glasses here, it is what it is, I have no high and mighty expectations. I'm not doing it for the business, if I get paid for whatever it is I may have the chance to do then so be it, I just want to do it. There are so many things that I get out of performing that I can't even put into words, the experience is priceless despite the consequences.
The theatre is one of the most expressive and useful instruments for the edification of a country; it is also the barometer which makes its greatness or its descent. A theatre which is sensitive and well oriented in all its branches from tragedy to vaudeville can in a few years change the sensibilty of the people; theatre which has been destroyed, in which cloven hooves take the place of wings, can put to sleep an entire nation. A people that does not aid and encourage its theatre is moribund if not dead; the theatre which does not gather to itself the best of society, of history, the drama of its people and the genuine color of its landscape and its spirit, with laughter or tears, does not deserve to call itself theatre, but rather a place for that horrible thing which is called killing time.- Federico Garcia Lorca
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