This entry kinda picks up where the previous one left off. I have just finished reading the book "Making It On Broadway" by Jodie Langel and David Wienir. It's one of the most honest and in-depth things I've read about the careers of actors in theatre. I highly recommend it, not just to actors but to the theatre going audiences, relatives and partners of actors. The book talks about theatre culture backstage, the casting process, the highs and lows of the job and everything else inbetween. No book could have summed it up better or I would have written one myself.
Whether they realise it or not, actors struggle a lot in their careers. And many who decide to choose this path are usually not entirely certain of what it entails until they try it out for themselves. There is a lot of research and work to be done in order to prepare for auditions. Rejection is part of the process. Also, booking a Broadway show doesn't guarantee future success. Many actors never return to Broadway again. They move into bigger appartments and adopt a more expensive lifestyle to find that once the show closes, they have to readjust back to life before.
Nothing should be taken for granted. The public sees acting as a glamourous job. If there is glamour at all, most times, once the job is over, a lot of the attention stops anyway. Personally, I find myself in a very unique and strange reality. One time, I wanted to get tickets for some friends to come watch a musical I was in. I still ended up having to call the ticketing hotline myself and I was put on hold for a very long time. No star treatment. In fact, while on hold, I heard my own voice singing from the musical's cast recording. "That's me! That's me!" I said aloud. But there was no one to share the experience with. I constantly find myself in situations like this. I also find it interestingly strange that sometimes I find out what's happening in my friends' lives from reading magazines, newspaper articles or watching tv, instead of getting updates directly from them.