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Thu, 15 Jan 2009, 03:36 pm
KTW12 posts in thread
Do you enjoy playing the piano? Are you a good piano player? Would you like to play for the musical OLIVER? KTW are in desperate need of a pianist for their upcoming production of Oliver. We have exhausted all our avenues and was hoping that someone out there could help us or point us in another direction. At this stage we are not able to offer payment but this could be relooked at. Please contact the Director/MD Cat Baxter on 0409 110 704 (after 4pm) of alternatively kittycat.1@optusnet.com.au

Moderated down. How predictable and typical.

Sun, 18 Jan 2009, 03:52 pm
Walter Plinge
Moderated down. How predictable and typical. How DARE anyone demand an improvement of Perth Community Musical Theatre?! And you TOTALLY missed my point. Perth Community Theatre is the epitome of mediocrity - just look at the Finley Awards (an award for 'coping with a difficult script" for god's sake!!!!!???!?). Basically, what you are saying is that Community Theatre HAS to be crap because people aren't paid. And BECAUSE there is no money to pay people, the quality cannot be improved. Bullshit. My bone is with the quality of musicals and the GALL companies have in doing them, despite NOT having an MD, NOT having a vocal coach, NOT having a capable pianist, etc. And, by the way, there ARE these types of musos that will do stuff and not expect to get paid. I repeat; unless you have someone who is CAPABLE in music, DON'T do musicals. It is INSULTING and denegrates the genre. I (and many people I know) DEMAND that musicals in Perth improve! They don't HAVE to be crap because its Community Theatre. That excuse no longer washes... But honestly, I don't know why I'm wasting my breath because people in the Perth Community Theatre scene have no desire to improve it and anyone who speaks up against it is criticised by the mediocrity majority, fencesitters and those who operate on quid pro quo.

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