<p>I could not agree more. My daughter avidly seeks out and enjoys every level of theater she can. It’s a bit of a trick out where we are but if you are dedicated it is possible. For a small town, we have a rather odd school situation where there are 4 major high schools in the same town and she goes to everyone else’s theater productions - she has good friends at all the other schools and they are all very supportive of each other which is sweet. </p>
<p>We see the touring shows in Dallas or other close areas as often as we can afford to and we see the shows that actually come to our town (our local venue usually has one big musical every year: she saw the first tour of “Hairspray” when it came here 
) and we did go, finally, to NYC two years ago. And yes we saw Wicked. And yes, that cemented the deal for her. 
And are we saving up to go back there as soon as we can? You betchyerass we are!</p>
<p>Another venue she loves is the UIL competitions. (for you non Texans, it’s our state wide big drama competition and festival - most Texas schools don’t participate in the other big thespian society because UIL is so time consuming and just as competitive that there’s no time to do both) In fact she’s very excited that Monday she gets to go with her teacher and a couple other select students to spend the week in Austin and watch the winning finalist shows from all over Texas, all day long for 3 days. 8 hours a day of watching the other high school’s One Act plays, and she lives for it.</p>
<p>(she gets to go even though her high school’s play did not advance, because her individual costume designs won state finalist…so we’ll be waiting with bated breath to see if she wins…everyone please send vibes that she might land a winning spot again, as she was first place in the state last year and it would be so cool to at least place again this year!!!)</p>