Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?- Page 3
Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
#50Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:05pmYES! If you can't, get out of the business.
#51Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:07pmBroadway performer is in the top five of most demanding of ALL professions. All of them. F*CK you, soldiers!
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#52Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:09pm
Solders are included in the Top 5.
"YES! If you can't, get out of the business."
Then I guess that means everyone.
#53Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:10pmTop five. Go.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
John Adams
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
#54Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:16pm
>> "YES! If you can't, get out of the business."
Then I guess that means everyone.
It's part of the definition of "professional". Professionals don't let their off days show.
Updated On: 5/19/13 at 10:16 PM
#55Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:21pm
Even professionals have their off days. Patti LuPone even went as far as stopping the whole show because someone was taking a picture.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#56Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:22pm
Thud.
You are ridiculous. That is all.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#57Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:23pmWhat exactly is being debated here?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#58Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:26pmWe are discussing why Jason Tam sucked in one performance of ACL. It was his right, he's not a robot!
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#59Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:39pm
Hey, BroadwayStar4, just for fun, which group of certifiable First Responders (among an honorable number) would you like to insult by not including in your top 5:
Soldiers
Doctors
Surgeons
Nurses
Police
Firefighters
Pilots
Teachers
Search and Rescue personnel
You have to offend at least 5 to get Performers into your top 5.
Oh, and among the (many) occupations I myself have left out of this abbreviated sample shortlist for you to consider are Stagehands. You know, the people behind pretty much every great performance you've ever seen (and the ones who had "off" nights, too.)
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#60Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:53pmI'm assuming Broadway performers are not in your Top 5? That's an insult to the performers. I think you guys are forgetting that being a Broadway performer is not a practical job. It's easier to be a nurse or teacher, because if you're an actor, you audition for months and you get nothing. When you do book a job, it won't last forever. So you audition again and again. Even when you are nominated or win a Tony, you still have to audition. It's not a steady job.
#61Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:55pmA not-steady job is more demanding than a demanding full-time job? How old are you?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#62Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:55pmOh, I get it, this is a total joke. Because if you actually believe what you're writing, hopefully you won't mind when life-saving personnel are having an "off" day when you need care.
"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#63Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:00pm
Getting a job (auditioning) and DOING a job (performing) are two totally different things. The stress of auditioning has nothing to do with the demands of the job.
Grow up.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#64Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:01pm
"A not-steady job is more demanding than a demanding full-time job?"
Auditioning is only the half of it. When you do book a job, that's when it gets harder and harder.
"you won't mind when life-saving personnel are having an "off" day when you need care."
Surgeons should never have an off day. Performers are not replacing organs.
#65Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:05pmYou take the audition, you take the performing, you take them both and there you have the facts of stressful grueling process.
#66Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:06pm
Surgeons should never have an off day. Performers are not replacing organs.
That's why it's called a "demanding" profession.
Which of the professions I listed above have lesser demands than those asked of Performers?
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#67Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:06pmHow old are you, seriously? How narrow is your worldview that somehow puts actors in the same class as soldiers, doctors, and I guess the Foxconn factory workers?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#68Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:07pmIt can't be worse than being BroadwayStar4's only brain cell left. Now that is HARD.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#69Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:14pm
Haha, okay so according to you guys, performing on Broadway is not a demanding job. It's a cut-throat business where you have to be amazing 8 shows a week. If you trip on stage, you quickly get replaced by an understudy, or worse, lose the job. But of course, it's not as demanding or stressful as being a teacher or a nurse.
For theatre fans, you sure don't give performers enough credit.
#70Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:17pm
NO ONE here said it's not demanding.
We're just saying it's not AS demanding as you seem to think.
And stop insinuating teaching is some undemanding job.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#71Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:18pm
Maybe you aren't familiar with the concept of a strawman, but it's not a winning argument. Try again. Naming things that are more demanding isn't the same as saying something isn't demanding at all.
You said it's in the Top 5 Most Demanding Professions. Your claim.
Rank 'em.
The purpose of this isn't to claim that Performing isn't demanding. It is. It's to claim that your claim is ridiculous. Because excelling at the peak of any profession is demanding. But some peak demands far outweigh others.
Hey, speaking of peaks, I'm gonna add Sherpas to my list. That's a demanding profession. Now you have to offend six.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#72Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:19pm
Teaching a bunch of brats about English or Math is not that demanding. At least they get a summer vacation!
Updated On: 5/19/13 at 11:19 PM
#73Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:21pm
I didn't see the revival of Chorus Line but I've heard (and yes it's here-say and not admmissable in a court of law) that Jason Tam never did on stage what he did at the audition.
I saw The Producers and that day Cady Huffman had a cold and was struggling. I knew she was doing her best but it was not the Tony performance that I caught.
I saw Bonnie and Clyde three times. The priest was always fine until opening night. That night he had a cold and literally croaked his songs. They should have sent on the understudy but the actor insisted on doing opening night.
We expect performers to be great 8 shows a week but sometimes they are not.
#74Do you expect performers to be great 8 shows a week?
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:26pmSo you're a troll.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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