Here’s how I see it:
There’s a huge set of people who’d like to sing for a living. They’d like to open up their throats, to share their talents, to make music that pleases many an ear, to entertain on stage in a musical. I think this is a wonderful calling, a fine ambition.
Within this set, there’s a certain subset who want it all without doing the work. Singing often looks easy when you see it on TV, so naturally there’s dilettantes with the foolish notion that their voices will carry them to fame and fortune without putting in the real work and learning anything.
There’s also a large subset who understand that the performing profession takes a lot of hard work, training, preparation, education and exploration. It’s these people I hang out with, many of my closest friends started as hard-working students.
No doubt, DR Jose will encounter members of both subsets in Charlotte. So far, he’s only told us about the woefully under-prepared. He’ll play many more auditions before the weekend’s over.
