Paying My Way to Broadway?

Today I was doing some more research into other training programs around the city - particularly those that cater to Musical Theater performers like myself, and I came across a week-long intensive that seems really cool - but also really expensive. (Isn't that just always the way?)

I tell ya, if I really want to make it on Broadway, I may have to win the NYC Lottery so that I can afford to pay for more of these classes. This one was particularly alluring because they bring in working Broadway professionals who teach Master Classes and watch you work and give you feedback. It sorta seems like a Musical Theater boot camp.

I exchanged a couple of emails with the director of the program and it seems that they're very nearly full, and also the scheduling of the class isn't the best for me right now. It sounds like I'm making excuses as to why I shouldn't enroll in it, but I think that the biggest factor is that I just don't have the cash. I think that there should be a limit to how much money I'm going to spend on a week of training. At least for now.

There will be another intensive forming in the spring, and I should know better by then whether or not to pull the trigger on it. But for now, I'm not through exploring other less extravagant avenues.

This afternoon I set up an automatic monthly withdrawal from my checking to my savings account so that I can start putting some money away for this, or perhaps something similar...if they'll have me, that is.

I would rather not have to pay my way to Broadway. I wish that it wasn't such a business, this show business. Whatever happened to the good 'ol days when people made it through hard work and determination?