Is it normal to be charged a bond in amateur musicals?

I don't know you and if you actually read my post you would realise that I was very careful to say that I didn't know if you were one of those people. Your post above doesn't help your image. 1/ Frankly unless you are a philantrophic millionaire I don't believe anyone could lose 100,000 dollars and keep operating. Alright some of it you haven't lost because it is capital investment but none the less. 2/ When I put on a show I have two budgets. One is the expenditure which I have control over completely. How much I spend in this area is governed by how much the other expenditure that I cannot control ie Theatre Hire and Royalties will be. This is simplistic but then so is your expenses list above. I think you are getting rooked on the rehearsal room but I don't know the venue. I also believe you are paying too much for lightng hire. Are we talking a wet hire? If so then why is there an additional charge for a fully professional lighting designer. My friend, you are doing professional theatre paying those you choose to pay and taking money out of the pockets of the dewey eyed innocents to whom I referred earlier. I stand by my comments, and my advice to anyone asked to pay a bond of this nature would still be "Don't do it." Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing.www.tonymoore.id.au