Only capitalists get photographers.
For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
The only reason to write is from love.
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.