What really goes on behind the scenes in the mysteriousworld of community theatre? Dreamcast is a look at the mostunderpaid volunteers on the planet, those who serve themuse of live theatre in the small towns and suburbs ofAmerica. A local amateur production of "The Sound ofMusic" unleashes vengeful nuns, a Korean beer connoisseur,a randy director, a flamboyant choreographer, an obsessivestalker, a brat who knows all the songs from "Wicked" and apot-smoker who lives in a public bathroom. Love/life,comedy/drama, mayhem, backstage drama and onstagetriumph are all here for the price of admission to Dreamcast.

This is my first novel and it is on a subject very dear to myheart. I have been doing community theatre since the age of9. Why do I keep doing it? I don''t get paid, in fact it costsme money. The glory is fleeting and the hours are awful. Iwrote this book in part to answer that question.

What really goes on behind the scenes in the mysteriousworld of community theatre? Dreamcast is a look at the mostunderpaid volunteers on the planet, those who serve themuse of live theatre in the small towns and suburbs ofAmerica. A local amateur production of "The Sound ofMusic" unleashes vengeful nuns, a Korean beer connoisseur,a randy director, a flamboyant choreographer, an obsessivestalker, a brat who knows all the songs from "Wicked" and apot-smoker who lives in a public bathroom. Love/life,comedy/drama, mayhem, backstage drama and onstagetriumph are all here for the price of admission to Dreamcast.

This is my first novel and it is on a subject very dear to myheart. I have been doing community theatre since the age of9. Why do I keep doing it? I don''t get paid, in fact it costsme money. The glory is fleeting and the hours are awful. Iwrote this book in part to answer that question.