#butwhyyyy

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[durtygurlteez]

What is going on in these parts!?!?!!! WELP, I'm up now 😩 #imtootiredforthis #itstoocoldforthis #ijustwannasleep eep #butwhyyyy #jesustakethewheel #thingsthatgobumpinthenight #wokeuptooearly #amidreaming #didievergotosleep #coulditbeathousandtiresbackfiringatonce #likewtf #revelation #loudnoises #boom #walkingzombie #imgonnabenogoodtoday #shouldvewenttobedearlier #threehoursofsleep (at Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVzuNLYrBK_/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ladyofthelakeshore]

Bailey wants to know exactly why we have to get up and Mondayface, and I’m afraid I don’t have a very good reason... but we gotta do it anyway. #mondayface #dog #saddoggo #butwhyyyy #becausewehaveto #dontwanna #ratherbeonthecouch (at Ohio City, Cleveland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo9N4blgeRL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qyx0w6riy3e7

[prweigand]

The Complicated Relationship Between Commercial and Not-For-Profit Theatres

Commercial and not-for-profit theatres can’t do without each other, but hooking up can be as profitable as it is problematic.

This article is a few years old, but seemed particularly fitting after the readings from class this week. Though buried midway through the article, there is a quote that suggests the idea that nonprofit theatre was born out of a market failure from the commercial sector:

“The alternative theatre, the resident theatre, was originally founded to do the kind of work Broadway couldn’t do, or wouldn’t do, or couldn’t afford to do.”

While the argument could be made that this is still the case, it is interesting to note that the market failure, perhaps, also draws nonprofit theaters into the commercial sector. As the article points out, a nonprofit theater may solicit a commercial producer to help offset the costs of a particularly large-scale production. I find this fascinating as it opens a whole new realm of financial management and contractual negotiations. After all, how do royalties play in to the “non-distributive,” constraint. (Note to self--really, look in to that).

And, of course, there is the potential mission drift...

Also worth noting, at least when considering the role of nonprofit theater as representation, three of the shows used as examples in the article (Sunday in the Park with George, Chorus Line, and RENT) won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Fun Home was a finalist, though it did not win.

[thereisnosp00n]

@ragin.kgin was supposed to help me find people (T-ple, if you will...) in profile for practice, and I was like "LIKE THIS!" And then I doodled the girl. And I couldn't draw the girl without her bun! And now here we are and I am super sad because why would you ever take a girl away from her bun holy cow. #butwhyyyy #imnotcryingyourecrying #madtparty #savemadtparty #alackery #alice #marchhare #owmyheart

[3lectricbutt3rfly]

I need to be doing my homework.