CABARET @ KTW

Maja - As a cast member of both Playlovers' Eurobeat and Yellow Glass' recent production of Into the Wood, I am offended by your comment. You are obviously bitter about the casting of Hair and Rent, but before you start cutting down Yellow Glass, you might like to remember that the two productions you're referring to were a collaboration between Yellow Glass Theatre Inc and Eventainment. YG have since split from Eventainment - did you notice? You also might recall that Yellow Glass produced many high calibre shows BEFORE their time with Eventainment. And yes, I thought that before I was cast in one of their shows. Company, Anthems for Doomed Youth, I SING! and their original production of Rent at The Bakery are the most professional, high quality Perth productions of musical theatre that I've seen here. As I said, I have worked with both Playlovers and Yellow Glass. I have nothing but respect for both companies. However, Maja, it is ridiculous of you to be comparing the two. Playlovers is an AMATEUR theatre company, as is Kwinana Theatre Workshop. Many Perth WAAPA graduates or now-professionals who started in Perth can say that they gained amateur performing experience in Playlovers shows. This is because, as Bibble touched on, amateur theatre is for AMATEURS. You are not required to be a size 8 with 15 years of classical dance and voice training, and so it IS wrong of people on this thread to be criticising the show for the appearance of its cast members, or for people to be drawing comparisons between an amateur production of Cabaret in Kwinana and a Broadway show. Playlovers are not a professional theatre company. On the other hand, Yellow Glass has strived to provide professional standard shows to the Perth theatre community since its birth in 2002. They cast performers who in many cases have completed degrees in performance (and I'm not saying that this is essential - at all), have had many years of training and/or are working in the industry professionally. They pay their performers. They hire professional musicians and quality theatre venues because they know that these things are required when a company is promoting a professional production. They also have sponsors. People will continue to bitch and moan about ticket prices, but at the end of the day nobody wants to pay $45 for a ticket to a professional show only to be sitting on plastic chairs in a dingy old hall listening to pitch-challenged singers sing along to a backing track. And no, that wasn't a personal reference to anyone. :) My point is, Maja, that whilst Playlovers, KTW and Yellow Glass all have their benefits, they are simply not on the same level for comparison. Two of them are amateur theatre companies, one is not. I'm sorry you felt it necessary to attack YG in order to defend Cabaret, but it was just that - unnecessary. It was also unfair to write-off Yellow Glass because of the shows it produced whilst with Eventainment. They tried something new, it didn't work, they learned from it, and now they've split - and you continue to attack them. The term 'tally poppy syndrome' is being thrown around a lot in this thread, so here's an official definition for those of you playing at home: 'A societal trait in which people of genuine merit are criticized or resented because the attention given them elevates them above their peers.' - Wikepedia Given that, I do not believe that the negative and unprofessional (it's amateur theatre) comments posted in this thread are a matter of tall poppy syndrome. They seem to be made by people who know the cast/crew and already have certain opinions of them.