Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
macbeth
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/03
#1Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Posted: 7/17/11 at 6:55pm
http://www.bloglovin.com/m/2104623/253176729/fb
Does anyone know what show this is referencing? This is really tacky...
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Posted: 7/17/11 at 7:34pm
This doesn't sound like an issue with NYMF but with the producers of THIS particular show. They are treating it like a camp/class. A learning opportunity. It doesn't sound like NYMF has anything to do with the costs.
(And I highly doubt they are the only show in the NYMF hisotry to cast non professional, non NY actors.
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.
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
Ariella
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#3Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:25pm
This is a non-issue. NYMF has cast plenty of non-professional, non-NY actors in the past, so "Kissless" is no exception. In fact, it's common - given that many performers and artists get their start at NYMF. If the child actors are students and the festival is being treated as a learning opportunity, it's no different from me having to cough up a couple hundred when my high school choir went to sing at Carnegie Hall.
Also, the author of the blog seems to have had her show rejected by NYMF, so I guess she has her own grudge.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#4Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:34pmVOTE! was not rejected by NYMF.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#5Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:37pmMy mistake -- VOTE! was at the Fringe not NYMF.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#6Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:49pmIt's around the same price of many acting apprenticeships at well-regarded theatre companies or festivals..
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#7Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy
Posted: 7/18/11 at 2:57pmThere are always going to be lots of people who dream of becoming artists and lots of people who find ways to make money off of that desire. Not exactly a symbiotic relationship (because the artists manqué don't get anything much for their money), but no one is forcing anyone to pay anything. An appearance in any festival show is rarely a springboard to a career.
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