[NewMusic] Mills article

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

I'd like to avoid the issue of attendance at improv shows, and who I see
regularly in the audience versus who I only see at shows they are playing,
though I'll have to give a pass to Mr. Greenlief, as he seems to be playing
somewhere almost every night.

As far the local scene being male-dominated ... we've had this discussion
before, at least twice in a little over a year. Not that 21 Grand is the
entirety of the local improv scene, but as far as statistics go, men do
outnumber women as performers. In the large ensemble performances, one sees
an even larger gender disparity. This, to me, is evidence for my theory that
as far as gigs go, most of the women perform more than a good number of the
men. 

But I agree, with Mr. Walter, and I think the word "dominated" implies
something about power and hierarchy that I don't think is quite accurate at
this point, historical "boys club" business notwithstanding.

Apologies to Mr. Greenlief, for appropriating, but my sense of the hierarchy
of the local scene (if there is one) is that those at the bottom of the
totem pole are men, in general, non-Mills affiliated men, and that if one
were to theoretically average the positions of each gender on this
theoretical totem pole, the position of women would be equal to or higher
than those of men, though there are more men at the top than women.

sl