Step Eight: Weigh Your Priorities... Play time? No time.

So, I decided that I won't participate in the play "It's a Wonderful Life" because of the time commitment. I've outweighed the pros and cons: ....and the bottom line: I don't want to devote a month's worth of (unpaid) time for a tiny blip on my resume, when I could wait tables and make enough money for Lasik.  college of course. 

                     Pros                         
1. New experience
2. I was excited to learn lines and role-play
3. See the atmosphere of acting
4. Networking and new friends
5. Something for the resume
6. Fun, fun, fun
7. I'd get to see my friend Kyle a bunch
8. I have multiple roles
9. I have speaking lines

                     Cons                         
1. My roles are small.
2. It's far. 45 minute drive from my house.

3. Requires multiple visits per week.
4. Would require rehearsals every day the last week, even though my characters are minor.
5. The play itself runs 3 weeks: Decemeber 2nd to the 17th.
6. Requires every Friday and Saturday night for 3 weeks.
7. Cuts into my chance to make money at the Cheesecake Factory. Restaurant biz is super busy and generous during the holiday season. Weekends are the most fruitful.
8. It's stage acting. I want to be a screen actor.
9. It would require Sunday rehearsals and matinee shows, which is a buzz kill for stage acting.
10. I'm bitter that I didn't get a lead part (mostly I'm bitter that I didn't prepare before auditioning b/c i could've gotten a lead if I'd prepared better.)
11. "It's a Wonderful Life" is truthfully a bit boring. It was hard to even just get through the movie in one sitting (which I didn't even do... I had to watch it in 4 different parts! secret: once I watched past the lines I would have, I never finished the rest).
12. I have 5 speaking lines.

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"It's A Wonderful Life" Feature Film & Script

these would have been my lines:

  WOMAN

                        How am I going to live until 

                        the bank opens?

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  MRS. DAVIS

                        Could I have seventeen-fifty?

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               EXT. STREET IN BAILEY PARK – DAY
               CLOSE SHOT
               George and Mary are talking to Sam Wainwright in front of 
               the latter's car. Hs wife, Jane, is now out of the car.

                                     SAM
                         We just stopped in town to take a 
                         look at the new factory, and then 
                         we're going to drive on down to 
                         Florida.
                                     GEORGE
                         Oh...
                                     JANE
                         Why don't you have your friends join 
                         us?
                                     SAM
                         Why, sure. Hey, why don't you kids 
                         drive down with us, huh?
                                     GEORGE
                         Oh, I'm afraid I couldn't get away, 
                         Sam.
                                     SAM
                         Still got the nose to the old 
                         grindstone, eh? Jane, I offered to 
                         let George in on the ground floor in 
                         plastics, and he turned me down cold.
                                     GEORGE
                         Oh, now, don't rub it in.
                                     SAM
                         I'm not rubbing it in. Well, I guess 
                         we better run along.
               There is handshaking all around as Sam and Jane get into 
               their car.
                                     JANE
                         Awfully glad to have met you, Mary.
                                     MARY
                         Nice meeting you.
                                     GEORGE
                         Goodbye.
                                     JANE
                         Goodbye, George.
                                     SAM
                         So long, George. See you in the funny 
                         papers.
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