While white people certainly love “the cinema,” they are required to balance their interest in film with an interest in live theater, most notably plays.
In spite of plays having minimal sets, no special effects, an intermission, and a higher admission price, white people believe that live theater is essential to any cultured city.
It is not known if white people actually enjoy plays or if they are just victims of massive peer pressure from the 45% of white people who have acted in a play at some point in their life.
The only real advice around this subject is to never accept an invitation from a white person to go see a play. Often times you will be supporting their friend or cousin and then get stuck with a $45 ticket (at least) and three hours of trying to figure how close you are to the end.
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Theatre is the institution, theater is the building in which it is performed.
Most theatre tickets cost less that $45, too. Rush tickets, Off- and Off-Off Broadway, and almost all regional.
Ha! Not so white as I thought I was!
If you live in NYC, it’s a rite of passage that you will attend some lousy plays that your friends are in. Even worse, you’ll see a play your friend WROTE. The toughest rite is to attend a play that’s been written by a friend who is also the star.
These events will cause you to re-evaluate your friendship with such a person for the following reasons.
1. Once you attend a friend’s play, it is automatically assumed you will be attending future plays. That can be tough, especially since these plays are ridiculously long.
2. Many people write plays as an excuse to either get naked themselves or get someone they have a crush on to appear naked on stage. This can put a lot of strain on a friendship.
For these reasons, you’ll quickly develop a ratio of play quality vs. worth of friend as valuable business contact.
At the very least, you will learn how to diplomatically decline future invitations and develop the art of creative excuses…something white people are very good at.
Another spot on post. White people, ever concerned about living the life they see in TV commercials and New Yorker ads, the theatre is-in a word-essential. Why is there so much antipathy towards the truths highlighted by this blog? They are all true. In fact, this blog usually doesn’t go far enough.
Still fun to read.
THANK YOU. Wtf is up with this? I’m sorry, but when I grew up poor, and mostly white, TV and movies were real entertainment. Then when I moved to college, it was just movies. Theatre (inverted spelling and all) was but an afterthought.
And I’m sorry to all those thespians, but having seen a lot of both stage and screen, there’s a reason Vaudeville died (soon to be followed by Broadway). Cry all you want, but only rich New Yorkers really care about that crap anymore anyway.
Happy to substitute Disney animation for ‘The Lion King,’
-A Member of the 21st Century
know what else is boring? middle class white americans with no class or taste. what a snooze.
“theater”. good. keep washing away the canadian.
Actually “theater” refers to the actual building in which the play is happening. “Theatre” refers to the performance taking place in said building.
(Not white but I appreciate grammar just the same;)
I’m white and I hate plays and don’t go. I am so uninterested in plays that I didn’t even know the tickets cost $45. Going by your parameters, my fashion taste about plays is more refined than the white author of this blog.
LIAR
It is not known if white people actually enjoy plays or if they are just victims of massive peer pressure from the 45% of white people who have acted in a play at some point in their life.
LOL!
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…racist…
can’t take a joke when it’s about white folks?!?!?!?
racist
Yeah, go ahead and knock theatre (ooh love that spelling).
It is too bad that there is so much bad writing out there or plays would be worth going to for the play instead of looking good with a little plastic cup of red wine.
I pooped my pants
l poop in my pants too sexy assshole lol hhhh
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