| re: Since you bring up that season, and its plays... |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:36 am EST 12/29/17 |
| In reply to: re: Since you bring up that season, and its plays... - Singapore/Fling 12:00 am EST 12/29/17 |
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My answer is probably going to disappoint you. The only comprehensive source I have is looking at lots of listings every day or at least week for -what?- 35 years or so, although to some extent the Guernsey yearbooks would help (though not as deeply as I'm going into the trenches). Of course, the vulnerability in my claim is that a lot of it is unpaid or severely underpaid, but if we are looking at this as a measure of making theatre, that's not a disqualifier. I think we can break it down by segment and get a sense. Count the familiar names in off-B non-profits and assess where they were in 1980. (Quite a few weren't, quite a few were but on a much smaller scale and even the big names (e.g., the Public, Roundabout) were not producing anywhere near the level they are now.) Established off-off companies were far less plentiful as were the number of ad-hoc productions and companies. [I think you could do the same regionally and maybe TCG would have some data beyond the yearbooks, but I think there has been an explosion in the number of companies in a large number of US cities and that could be documented fairly easily in the top 20 or so.]
Folks can question my claim, but it is my sense, as someone who sees a lot of theatre on a lot of levels, that there is more to keep up with than there was 20 years ago. |
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