I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Posted on | January 31, 2007 | No Comments
Though it isn’t the most exhaustive, scientific, or scholarly piece on the subject, Nina Metz’s article in the Trib about the financial straits of Chicago actors is at least a decent primer. Having just been amongst our London-based brethern and sistern (not to be confused with cistern), I’m strangely pleased that my representation of “making a living in Chicago” was so dead-on. Then that subsides and I’m very depressed. And then I begrudgingly give thanks for my tedious-but-in-reality-amazingly-cushy dayjob.
While I personally know someone who represents each of the scenarios here, I thought Joel Hatch hit on the elusive but universally tantalizing spirit of Chicago theatre, the reason d’etre for anyone who sticks it out here and what makes Chicago different from our coastal counterparts:
“There are very few cities anywhere … where I could do musical theater, Shakespeare, straight theater, comedy, dramas, all those things, and be booked throughout the year in the same city and live in my own house. That is a rare thing.”Buy me a beer?
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