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  • Some shows run forever. What do shows like STOMP, Forbidden Broadway, Blue Man Group, and Tony & Tina’s Wedding all have in common? They’ve all clocked more than 2,000 performances. The Fantasticks holds the record: 42 years, or 17,162 performances. How’s that for job security?

  • Work with big-time actors. You know what they say: Feature films feed the kids, but theatre feeds the soul. Lots of movie stars do off Broadway shows: Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Frances MacDormand, and Ethan Hawke, just to name a few currently treading the boards…

  • You can sleep in your own bed. Stop auditioning for those fifteen month tours across America. Stay in New York and do some quality theatre instead.

  • Movin’ on up, to the Theatre District. You have a chance of moving to Broadway. Which means better production quality, more exposure, and more money in your pocket. It happened to A Chorus Line, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, In The Heights, and Urinetown, among others.

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