Perspective: Hitting the Boards - but at What Price ; Every Little Girl Dreams of Stardom but As Kathryn Knight Explains, Very Few Make It and One of the Reasons Is the Cost

Birmingham Post › February 28, 2005

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Like every child, all the way through school, I had a dream - I wanted to be on the West End stage. At four years of age, I went to my first ballet class, and within a couple of years I was a budding star. I was interested in nothing else except singing, dancing and acting.

Mum and Dad took me all around the country, taking part in festivals and putting on shows with my dance school. All I cared about was whether I won or not. I was very competitive. But like most childhood dreams, mine didn't come true.

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Perspective: Hitting the Boards - but at What Price ; Every Little Girl Dreams of Stardom but As Kathryn Knight Explains, Very Few Make It and One of the Reasons Is the Cost

Of course, there were lots of reasons why I gave it all up and decided to focus on getting a degree instead. However, there is one thing in particular that I still can't understand. Why does it cost such a ridiculous amount of money to go to ...

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