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“We all agreed it was a good idea.

The theater cost one thousand dollars

for the night, so we each worked at

part-time jobs to earn our shares plus

a lot of extra for advertising. We

rented the theater, made fliers, and

posted them all over town. We put it

on the marquee, bought ads in the

paper, and did advertising

everywhere else we could think of.”

“How did it go?” David asked.

“When it was time for the concert

to start,” Jim replied, “not a single

person had come, not even family and

friends. So we opened all the doors

and started to play, hoping to draw

people in off the street. After about