Welcome to Plano....
As a Plano resident (20+ yrs) this doesn't surprise me. The theater guy's reasoning (too few AA's in Plano) makes him look like an ass. My first question for him would be "so do you guys hand out any scholarships/grants/financial aid to families who cannot afford that 250 bucks?" and "how much effort have you put forth in EAST Plano schools/community to recruit kids since you say that you knew SIX months ago that you were going to do this play?" If I remember correctly, the PCT group is a pretty small clique of upper middle to high income parents and kids, not a whole lot of community outreach on their part to the general community, never mind over in East Plano (higher number of minorities).
My one daughter (now 25 y/o) was heavily involved in Plano East's high school's theater club/community (worked back stage) and they had a pretty diverse group of kids on and behind stage. So for him to use that as an excuse is lame. The kids interested in theater are THERE, it's just PCT didn't bother to do any outreach. Cant upset their little darlings in that PCT clique.
It's not unique to just our kids' theater community, unfortunately. Very little if any diversity there, either. And not because there were "so few" minorities here.
My daughter did volleyball for years at her school and community center (free or little cost) and then decided to do club volleyball at the urging of her father (my ex-husband)...OMG, cha-ching, cha-ching. JUST to "try out" in front of the coaches you had to pay a fee, then IF you were accepted, you paid more $, and then there were endless travel costs because they travelled around the state and to surrounding states (gas, food, hotel rooms, plane tickets at times). In our case, the team sucked and lost alot because while each girl did well on an individual basis, they never could gel as a team because of some girls' egos and temper tantrums...the coach would try to reign them in and then the parents of the girls who were being reigned in threw a fit because their "angels" were pouting...and the coach was forced to step down. So, yeah, here the rest of us were paying, paying, and still paying to put up with that shitty attitude. It was pretty depressing and my daughter lost interest in the sport afterwards
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