Re: RAT Re: Tickets

[P1d2o3b@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/29/99 9:54:34 AM EST, shadowtackle@worldnet.att.net 
writes:

> Maybe we are meant to be darlings of fate or royalty or ...Subsidize 
productions by >outside means (grants or  large individual donations) - ..A 
further 
> possibility: give stuff away in addition to putting on the show for free, 
e.g.
>  bread or soup. While many inside the theater believe that theater feeds 
the 
> soul, many outside (a distinction I don't know that I accept, more later) 
don' t 
>get this central concept. Feed the body as an emblem of our deeper purpose. 
> If audiences will only value a show if they pay for it, accept donations, 
and 
> then give the donations to another cause. Loyola says what we get for free 
> (inspiration) we should give for free.
>  
>       Running a theater on the basis of box office can be like using the 
> lottery for a retirement account.
>  e 
>  
This was so lovely,  Copy and forwarding finger action =  Here! Here! vocal 
accord.

I actually do believe and do that "getting" the audi-ence you want -- in my 
case
labor unions  -- to sponsor and their members to participate is much harder, 
requires
much more craft, experience, dues paying, blood, sweat, and tears, and T I M 
E (God
knows that's why I'm guilt riddenly R & R-ing rediscovering you guys here) 
than
what I get and am dying to give for free.  And thank you very much for that 
from
Loyola.

In re which and on Iowa, Erik, my life has mainly been about negating the 
negation of those the first two authors on the reading list got "to hold onto 
what they got" (tenure)
here by 'dis-ing.'  So, while I love driving up the midwest in winter,
I'm demotivated at the thought of arguing to disentrall devotees of Arendt I 
know
I'd feel compelled and incapable to do.  Stalin and the Red Army probably 
weren't
as wonderful as the Newsreels et al US media painted them during WWII, but 
equating
fascism with communism, and Hitler with Stalin has had bad bad effects.  
There's a demo on the street in front of my building. Now sirens.
Got to go check it out.

P from downtown Atlanta