There are thousands of us here -- scraping out a living, competing for nonpaying acting jobs in 30-seat theaters in Bushwick, working as ... all » singing waiters while serving the tourists overcooked Denver omelets. Some people -- a few lucky ones -- will have what it takes to succeed in New York theater. They will be ushered in a private limousine from their temp receptionist job straight to their Letterman debut, while their agent BlackBerries them a breathless six-figure offer from Cameron Mackintosh.
"Breaking In" is not about those people.
It is a comedy about the others -- theater people with very little talent and even less character, each one of them convinced that they are the next chosen savior of the American stage. "Breaking In" is about the people you should avoid at all costs, the ones who will put you up in front of an audience under fluorescent lighting singing church-basement music after you've been sexually harassed in the wings. It's about the shows you're ashamed to admit that you were a part of. It's about the theater world not as we'd like it to be, but as it is. Petty. Sleazy. Crass. Dehumanizing.
And funny. We hope.
"Breaking In" -- If "The Office" were set in Off-Off-Broadway theater, it would look something like this, though it would probably be watched by way more people.
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