wrote:

"You have a 15 year old kid about to
enter college in an electrical
engineering program. *What's he (or she) thinking in a sniveling bratty
manner? "*

Actually I thinkj those who go for
that have a better, or at least more
practical (in a perfect world) mind
than those who decide to go for liberal arts. My ilk and I call liberal arts - "basket weaving". Unfortunately that
partly applies to musicians. Most of
them*

Yeah, I imagine that's been the question almost forever. How does someone get famous throwing concert after concert?

Do a bunch of statisticians get together at audition after audition and poll audiences on which person for which part is best and the money people come in and finance the show based on the poll results?

I wouldn't be surprised.