1. “La Vie Boheme” is the “Party Rock Anthem” of the theatre world … and it’s extremely overplayed.
2. You don’t want to be “that guy” who announces how long until the next day’s call while everyone is having fun at cast party.
3. When your friends come see a show they don’t like, they will talk about how great the set/lights/orchestra was.
4. Hell hath no fury like a crew member scorned.
5. You will have to get naked backstage with the entire cast, but no one has time to look at you during a quick change anyway.
6. There are never enough boys for any production.
7. Waiting to see if you got cast will be the longest week of your life.
8. You don’t truly know someone until you’ve gone through tech week with them.
9. Live theatre is thrilling and rewarding, until you have a wardrobe malfunction.
10. Don’t talk s--- while mic’d .
11. Nothing bonds a cast like a director from hell.
12. There is nothing worse than having to perform sick and/or hungover.
13. “Who can function with the least amount of sleep?” is a tricky game to play.
14. The stage manager is more stressed than you are.
15. Someone in the cast definitely lived in New York for a while, and they definitely think you should hear all about it.
16. One girl will insist on bringing in all her own costumes, and that girl is the worst.
17. Your first crush will become your best friend once he comes out of the closet.
18. Spanks are a necessary evil.
19. Stage make-up closely resembles hooker make-up, and that fact becomes abundantly clear when you arrive at your local Applebee’s post-show.
20. Stage Moms are everywhere, and they are 100 percent certain that if there kid plays Annie in a local production they are well on their way to stardom (The Disney Channel).
21. Community theatre productions attract the most wonderful and hilarious people you’ve ever met.
22. Community theatre attracts the craziest people you’ve ever met, and they really want you to know about everything that’s ever happened to them.
23. Finding ways to get out of strike is an art form.
24. When a show ends, the person you’ve been complaining about for a month suddenly becomes “not so bad.”
25. You are allotted one “diva moment.” After that, you’re just being a jerk.
26. You vowed to never do another show again, but that spring musical does have auditions soon.
