Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy

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.

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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.

My mistake -- VOTE! was at the Fringe not NYMF.

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There 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.