Am I bad person?
I was supposed to go to Northlight to see "Tuesday's with Morrie tonight". But my friend who was the AD called to say she couldn't get a comp. And tickets cost $50. So I'm bagging it.
Actually, I'm going to the matinee tomorrow instead. But still, should I have just sucked it up and paid? I don't think I've paid more than $15 to see a show (any show!) in years. I've managed to either a) scam comps b) be my boyfriends date, my aunt's niece, or my mother's daughter c) work at the relevant theater (or have worked there in the recent past) d) have a willing-to-give-comps connection in the "artistic associate" position. (thanks Curt!) or e) gone on "industry night"/when they were papering.
So, basically, I've managed to see an immense amount of theater for very little money. And I'd be the first person to say every non-profit theater in the world needs all the money it can get from ticket sales.
i.e. I'm a living, breathing, hypocrite. And yet, I don't really feel all that guilty about it. Which, I think, means the answer is yes, yes I am a bad bad person.

Although, on the moral continuum of things, I think this offense ranks me slightly below your average dictator, mass murderer, or abuser.

And no, I'm not paying tomorrow. Maybe I'll make up for it by seeing Northlight alum Megan Mullally at their benefit. I love her on Will&Grace and am a little bit of a fanatic about her CD.

(Side note. I don't actually "own" the CD in the conventional sense. My boss does)

Although this does lead to interesting question about my personal willingness to spend. I'm willing, nay eager, to spend $75-100 to see a TV star sing a few songs but apparently unwilling to pay more than $15 to see live theater, the industry that I am fervently, even obsessively, committed to.

And, being a business school student, I was tempted to term that paragraph above in economic theory. But then I remembered that my teacher thinks I only make comments "completely devoid of economic theory" and decided not to.

Not that I'm still bitter. (I should, to be fair, mention that I got my midterm back in that class and scored above the mean. Which means I actually understand at least some economic theory. Or else my handwriting is so bad it just looks like I do...hmmm...)

On the school note, I have to bid on classes this week. Which I totally forgot. So that's bad. And the LOTR: TROTK video game came out too. Sigh. It's so hard to be such a colossal geek.
- posted by Heidi @ 5:39 PM