You say yes to Barter, and skip touring as Clara with “The Merry Adventures of the Nutcracker.” Instead, you play a nurse in “South Pacific” and are asked back for the next season as a non-union actor, doing a few small roles and performing in the educational touring company. You work in Abingdon for two years, get your equity card, and wonder if you’ll spend your career working in rep in this lovely theatre…

Well… maybe that’s what would have happened.

This choice is not actually one that haunts you, but when you sat down to consider how you got to be the actor you are, this is one of those decisions that could have changed your career. Maybe.

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