<p>No. If you want to be a performer audition as a performer. Do not sign up for custodial work thinking you will move up. Just no.</p>
<p>Yes, Flossy is correct that if you’re accepted as a CP in a non-performer job your chances of being allowed to take on a performance role during your Program is virtually non-existent but CPs can be performers. You have to audition prior to being accepted into the program and must actually be offered the performer role for your job as a CP. My daughter does know performers who completed a Program as a non-performer but AFTERWARD they auditioned for and were offered performance roles.</p>
<p>Bumping for the newbies!</p>
<p>I don’t think it is hard for me to justify being a musical theatre major from an educational perspective and certainly from a growth perspective as a person. What I think is ultimately more uncharted territory is trying to justifyfor how long one should try to break into the industry. I am seeing my daughter’s friends who are a few years out of school and have not yet booked much that is income producing. They continue to work pay check to paycheck as nannies, hostesses and waitresses. Some are extremely talented but not necessarily marketable. Others may not even have the talent. To me that is the real dilemma. You begin to see the divide between those who are truly supporting themselves by pursuing their dream in theatre and those who may have to go to Plan B. Those actors and actresses have a constant battle to try to figure out if success is just around the corner and therefore their sacrifice is justifiable and self doubt as to their ability to ever succeed that is made worse by people asking them what they have accomplished.</p>