Three months ago Robert Egan moved to Seattle to be artistic director at ACT. “In what he calls ‘a shocking disclosure,’ Egan says he learned two weeks ago that ACT’s big fall fund-raising push had fizzled amid a flagging economy in the Pacific Northwest.
Annual donations totaled $1.8 million instead of the budgeted $2.4 million. Had he known then what he knows now, would Egan have taken the job? ‘That’s a very good question,’ he says. ‘I don’t know’.”
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