<p>“some of that clubby, insular behavior that can be bad for a theater program is here.”</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I have to jump in and say that neither myself nor my daughter have ever been either clubby or the kind of people that clubby people invite to their clubs. What do you mean by clubby? I don’t know about the world of post grad BFA’s, but from the MINUTE I posted here on CC MT and Theater threads, with a lot of ignorance and absolutely zero credentials as far as anyone knew, I’ve received absolutely nothing other than overwhelmingly patient, kind, helpful, honest, realistic, and supportive advice. This is advice from people who have very successful children and they don’t owe the rest of us a dang thing but they help out anyway, as well as educational professionals who also get nothing out of it but their help is absolutely invaluable. I think it’s astonishing that in a field as competitive as musical theater, that everyone here is falling over themselves to help everyone else along the way, and I have to say that every time I took the advice I was given here, I only realized more and more all the time just how helpful it was and how lucky I was to get it because NOBODY in my family or my town or our school knows any of this and we’d have been LOST. My d would have ended up somewhere that she may very well have said later, “well, at the time I thought it was great but I wish I had known there were paths open to me other than the one I got.”</p>