Sue Gilad's Early Love for Theater

Broadway was a fantasy, and it's a dream, and not something I could ever imagine being a part of. I mean, Broadway was rarefied to me. I would go to work with my dad on Sundays. He had a camera store in the Village, in Greenwich Village. And I would earn enough money, miraculously— thank you, Dad— to go stand on the TKTS line, the half-price ticket line. And then, you know, these were days before internet, so you didn't know what you got. So you would go and see a show like Torch Song Trilogy. Well, that has song in the title, so that's probably a musical. That's not a musical. It was not an appropriate show for me to see. So only— Everything. And of course, I had the worst seats in the theater, all the way, all the way, all the way in the back. But just to be part, just to, you know, have an experience that you got to see the best people in the world doing it was magical for me.