Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Saturday, October 15, 2005


Each year, 32 million people attend nonprofit theaters, according to TCG....

And how did TCG (which stands for Theater Communications Group, by the way) come up with its numbers? Did it count high-school and college productions? Did it count street theater? Did it count people four times? Given the total uninterest outside highly urban America this sounds like a typical we-need-federal-funds exaggeration. Theater consists mostly of the tourist traps of Broadway and the bus-'n'-truck companies, and the navel starings everywhere else. 32 million is over ten percent of the population. Over ten percent of the population does not go to the theater, let alone the "non-profit" kind.

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