[NEOPAL]Re: "decline of live theater"

[Tom Burnett]

If you study the history of this country you'll find people like  
Ernest Angley have been around for a couple hundred years. Pointing  
to that mindset as a reason for a recent decline in theater  
attendance -- a "decline" that hasn't even been proven to exist -- is  
rather fallacious.

There's been more than 500 postings to this list in the last three  
weeks or so, the overwhelming percentage advertising live  
performances occurring or needing performers. The community theater  
group for which I work has seen increasing audience sizes in the past  
three years; perhaps any "decline" people are complaining about is  
just a matter of more events and venues in a region of negligible  
population growth.

In any event, my opinion of people like Angley is similar to yours. I  
don't subscribe to this list, however, to read about religion -- or  
politics.

On Apr 10, 2006, at 17:38, za za wrote:

> If we accept the statement that this decline is a 'bad thing', and  
> we wish to do something about it, then we need to examine possible  
> causes. I submit that the mind-set that supports activities like  
> Ernie's Road Show is one possible cause. Ernie's friends and  
> supporters are alive and well here in NEOH. That's what's wrong.