Les Miserables... just for something different :)

Having been both paid and unpaid for my acting.(ok, I have been paid twice and done it for free lots of times) I can say I like being paid better! Who wouldn't? But the reason community theatre exists is because paid or unpaid. we love what we do. If we didn't we wouldn't spend hours in freezing cold or boiling hot reheasal venues. We wouldn't let our lives be schedlued around the whim of sometimes tyrantical directors! We wouldn't go on stage with pneumonia! As actors we love working with professional musicians, sound and light people and such, because they make US look and sound better. What it all boils down to is this. We are all as addicted to the applause as any other junky! We do what we can, for who we can, to play the roles we love and get on to a stage! If someone else is making money from that, then that is all right with me. Still, it would be nice if ticket prices remained somewhere reasonable!