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Performers often find acting good training for other work

cookbooks, and, recently, a racquet ball book. Draper's stage manager, Chris Cohen, has a carpentry firm, which he considers the perfect second business for anyone coping with a B'way performance schedule. "With most of my afternoons free, I figured some time ago that it would be wiser to earn $50 than to spend it." Ron Trumble, Jr., an understudy in Children of a Lesser God agrees. Ron, an accomplished woodworker, creates furniture on consignment.

Another cast member of Children of a Lesser God, Lucy Martin, spends much of her off-stage time at the Episcopal School on East 69th Street, where she runs groups for new parents. Lucy feels that her acting has been good training for her job at the school--"It's taught me to read a subtext--to get beneath the words."

TALKING TO THE STREETS
Steven Michael Harris, "the one man band" in Barnum, moonlights on Manhattan's sidewalks. Although the pay is not impressive, (Steven generally passes the hat), the job has other advantages. For one thing it gives him a chance to smooth out the rough edges of his clown act; for another "I make my own hours." Harris has discovered that just as on Broadway it is not always easy to book a theatre, on the streets it isn't always possible to find a corner. "I once wanted to perform in front of the library on Fifth Avenue," says Harris, "but I was promptly chased away by another street performer who claimed the spot was his." Equity may have no jurisdiction over the space in front of the Library Lions, but that day it became perfectly clear to Harris that he had exceeded the bounds of his contract.

MOVIES AND TV
The increasing number of feature films now being filmed in New York City has meant many more jobs for Broadway actors. Moonlighting in movies, though lucrative for performers, is not always without problems. Swoosie Kurtz, who plays Gwen Landis in Fifth of July, has a role in the film The World According to Garp, which has been shooting this spring and summer in and around New York City. "My first priority is to the show, but the assistant directors in charge of shooting schedules for the film have trouble understanding that. 'Oh that Broadway thing,' seems to be their attitude." Swoosie found that acting in a hit play and filming a major motion picture has made serious emotional demands. Many days she would be on location for the film all day waiting to do a scene that they enver got to, then she would rush to the theatre "feeling drained."

As a concession to her performance sched-

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Terri Klausner (Sophisticated Ladies) moonlights in nightclubs--currently at Ted Hook's On Stage, Les Mouches in Sept.

ule, the movie company hired a helicopter to get her back and forth from a location on an island two hours from N.Y.C.

Estelle Parsons, a star of The Pirates of Penzance, recently made a TV movie called The Gentleman Bandit. Although Estelle generally enjoys moonlighting--"especially during a long run," she finds her role in Pirates so demanding that making the TV movie was nearly impossible. "I had to get a prescription for a mild tranquilizer so I could get to sleep after Pirates and make it to the set the next

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