Those who know me know that throughout high school although I loved theater, I never considered myself a theater kid. When the truth, of course, is: if I'm not a theater kid then who is?
I would like to amend my statement.
I have come to the conclusion that there are, with varying degrees of overlap allowed, three types of theater people. The first is the kind I refused to group myself with in high school: musical theater people. The second: improv people. The third: fans of straight plays (Note for those of you not up on the lingo: these are not necessarily plays featuring straight people, although that happens from time to time, but non-musical plays). I definitely belong in the third category. When writing, reading, and viewing I prefer straight plays to musicals. That isn't to say that I don't like musicals or improv; my enthusing about Spring Awakening and Quipfire disproves that statement.
These are the things you realize while driving to get dinner between the matinée and the evening show.
If I had to quickly categorize my colleagues here, I would say, for example, that Intern T likes straight plays, Flatmate H likes musicals, and Flatmate M likes improv. Or not. Who knows, really, in the end?