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WORK AND PLAYS 

Many theatre people spend off-stage hours in second jobs

A well-callused carpenter brushes sawdust out of his hair and quickly packs up his tools. It's getting late and he's due at the Longacre Theatre. At The Theater Center of the Juilliard School a brunette teacher abruptly dismisses a class of drama students ... there's an audience waiting at the Music Box. In a church basement on the East Side the discussion is heating up, but the group leader excuses herself apologetically. It's Wednesday and the matinee curtain goes up in less than an hour. 

These three are just a few of the hundred or so moonlighters on the Great White Way--Broadway performers who juggle eight shows a week with second jobs that run the gamut from cabinet building to social work. 

Marian Seldes, the aforementioned "brunette professor," has been teaching at Juilliard for the last 12 years. During that period she has been performing almost without a break in two long runs--Equus (three years) and for the last four years in Deathtrap. Originally she took the job out of the feeling of financial insecurity endemic to the acting profession. She says that she has continued over the years out of a devotion to teaching and sheer manic drive. "What would I do with my day? I'm not the type to lie around in bed eating chocolates." (In addition to teaching, 

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PHOTOS BY FREDERICK CHARLES
Steven Michael Harris (Barnum) performs his clown act on the New York City Streets

Seldes reviews books for a Midwest newspaper, makes frequent appearances on CBS radio's Mystery Theater and has found time to write three books, including a novel Time Together which will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the fall.)

Unlike Marian Seldes, who generates enough moonlight to brighten a month of Januarys, most other Broadway performers limit their off-stage vocations to a single pursuit. For example, Jane Robertson, an understudy in Annie, bakes novelty cakes in the shape of theatre logos, calling cards, ballet shoes. Kate Draper, who plays Nina in A Day in Hollywood/ A Night in the Ukraine, illustrates children's books,

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George Rose (The Pirates of Penzance) records for the Am. Federation of the Blind

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Marian Seldes (Deathtrap) instructs Steve Bassett, one of her Juilliard drama students

by Jack Curry

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Didn't know if ad page was to be transcribed since perhaps not relevant to playbill, but transcribed in case. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-24 09:42:17 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-24 11:51:34