# My Son Performed at Carnegie Hall! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977 "2013-02-21T16:11:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/1 "2013-02-21T16:11:59Z")
My son who is a dancer called to say he’d be performing at Carnegie Hall! He has already performed. He lives in NYC as a dancer working hard to make ends meet. He loves dance, is doing what he truly loves, and knows the deal about being a “struggling artist”. He is not an engineer like me in the high-tech world. But he is doing what he loves! He is a member of a dance company in NYC. And, Carnegie Hall!! He said it was a great experience and a great venue. Sign me, One Proud Papa ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/2 "2013-02-21T16:13:41Z")
Nice accomplishment! Congrats, proud papa! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/3 "2013-02-21T16:30:20Z")
did he practice? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/4 "2013-02-21T16:38:33Z")
Congratulations! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/5 "2013-02-21T16:56:10Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > did he practice? ?? His name isn’t Allen Iverson. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/6 "2013-02-21T17:14:09Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > did he practice? Hahaha, I was going to ask how he got there. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/7 "2013-02-21T17:15:12Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > ?? His name isn’t Allen Iverson. [Carnegie Hall joke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall#Carnegie_Hall_joke). Edit : And that quote makes me want to slap A.I.'s shit so hard… ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/8 "2013-02-21T18:25:54Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > Hahaha, I was going to ask how he got there. Personally I’d take the. N/Q/R subway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/9 "2013-02-22T01:43:44Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > [Carnegie Hall joke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall#Carnegie_Hall_joke). 😛 Good one. Yes, he practiced. As a kid he worked his ass off. But you know what? He loved it. It was his passion. Since he loved it, it wasn’t work for him, not really. Although he certainly worked hard to build strength, flexibility, and his technique. He grew up and followed his heart, even when some instructors said he’d never be a professional dancer because his bone structure (hips turn out, for any dancers out there) would not allow him to get far. It’s like the NFL football commercial from several years ago where the actor Don Cheadle said the heart is the strongest muscle in the human body. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/10 "2013-02-22T02:23:45Z")
Congratulations to your son, **echo7tango** and also to you! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/11 "2013-02-22T03:01:24Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Personally I’d take the. N/Q/R subway. 😃 Yes, but that’s just to save little old ladies from muggings along the way… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-performed-at-carnegie-hall/650977/12 "2013-02-22T04:12:59Z")
Congratulations! It’s tough to make a living in the arts, and in New York? Amazing! As the song says, if he can make it there…