In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance.
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Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.
In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day... Sometimes, just a few hours.
I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.
On a film, they'll always say there's going to be a rehearsal period, and there never is.
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
Theater dates very quickly.