Without pausing, we rush on through Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra , reduced comically down to little more than the death scenes. Next three, please. WE'VE MADE IT through the entire play. Some of the younger folk were up five or six times. Thank you, everyone.
Community theater is a difficult entity to define.
It keeps the craft of theater alive. There are community theaters around the United States that have been alive 30 and 40 years, and some of them do topnotch work. And it gives them an audience that really wants them to have those opportunities. The second night of auditions is now officially over. After all, this will be a physically demanding show, and those young people were so much . . .