Justine Bateman. actress, SAG/WGA/DGA and coder on the misuse of AI in Hollywood

[chowmama]

11. Live theater

Find a live theater near you and go there. They can't AI it, and each performance is an individual moment in time, never to be repeated, for good or ill. Even the ill can be memorable.

No one supports this anymore, except for a few special places. I'll admit, I live in one of those places (Twin Cities, Minnesota). Theater is
the last bastion of reality in performance and when it finally dies, it'll be like losing another language. We've lost too many already and there's a limit to what we can stand to lose.

It's been threatened for a long time. I was criticizing a TV performance of a show, where the cast was obviously lip-syncing. My youngest sister informed me in all seriousness that 'Nobody can sing and dance at the same time". I beg your pardon - what have I been doing for years of college and beyond? I never made a living at it (unless room, board and a few bucks beer money per week count), but by God, I can do it. And there was the summer stock company where a family pulled up in the afternoon for tickets and finding out it was live theater, took their money back and asked "Where's the nearest real theater?".

When I finally retire from the animal hospital, theater is one of the things I may decide to do with my time. If it's still around. Damned if I'll sit on my ass and watch TV.