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A great deal of Jerry’s and my time is spent at the university. We teach at mutually antagonistic
universities. He is at USC and I’m at UCLA. I think that there’s a great eagerness on
the part of students to go into theater. I think there is a great gulf between the halls
of ivy and the commercial world outside and that we’ve got to find a way to bridge that
gulf. One thing, we’ve got to teach our students to be tough as nails. They’re gonna
have to fight. They’re going to have to sell as hard as they sell soap or toothpaste
in order to convey their enthusiasm, their conviction about their product, their play,
to get people to put the amount of money that is required to go into a play. When we did
Inherit the Wind it cost, with sixty people in it, it cost 40 or 50,000 dollars. Today
that play would cost five million. Alright, a little inflated – four million. Next year
it will cost five million.