Date sent: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:18:52 EST
Subject: Stage rules
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When pursuing a career in the theater, one must remember the following
guide-lines:


1) It is better to have a hit than a flop.
2) Never put a first year Stanislavsky student in a french farce.
3) Know how many acts are in the play.
4) It is as important to know the cues as it is to know your lines.
5) Save your money.
6) Know which battles you can't win and don't fight them.
7) To have a career in the theater, one must also have a store.
8) Work breeds work.
9) It is not safe to tell about a job until the day after the show closes.
10) Save your money.
11) Don't dazzle them with everything at once.
12) Stay down for the laughs.
13) Don't stay down too long.
14) Most of the people in Bangkok never heard of you.
15) Insanity often passes for talent.
16) When reading for a part, remember, they don't know what to do with it
either.
17) No matter how good the play, it is still not a cure for cancer..
18) Being applauded at the end often only means you got through it.
19) Doing a commercial is better than not doing Hamlet.
20) SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!!!


Lorraine Goodman