Yeah, well, the grass is always greener. Now that I’m living down here, I finally know the depths of my previous naïveté. First of all, the web sites I had located previously seem to have since disappeared. Secondly, I now know how very inconvenient it is to get from one side of the city to another. From Seattle, I could judge a distance of 5 miles as but a jaunt. Now that I’m in L.A., I know that for every mile of commute, one must budget approximately a week. Try getting a dozen people to one place, on time, in those conditions.

But the kicker is how much more expensive space (like everything) is down here. The going rate seems to be $20-25/hr to rent any rehearsal space of any kind. In Seattle it was $8-12. I knew that Seattle had a lower barrier of entry than most towns, especially the big ones (meaning both that Seattle has a lot of theater and that it has a lot of crappy theater,) but I didn’t think the difference was so severe. If you google “theatre space rental,” 3 of the first 12 entries are spaces in Seattle, a disproportionate share for the 23rd biggest city in the nation. My guess is that a town with that much rain needs lots of indoor activity.

Eventually I found a studio that is $50 for 3 hours. It shall have to do. And I shall have to find ways to turn a profit sooner than I thought.