Oh please... 20 bucks... a YEAR?  If that's too hard for you to come up with, you likely have more pressing concerns than community theatre....  Finding recipes that cover the taste of cat food for starters.

And besides, there's plenty of work to be done that doesn't fall within the privileges I listed above... Come help build set... Help make/alter/find costumes... Run the vacuum around the house... Learn how to hang/focus light... the list goes on and on and on...

At 20 bucks a year, we're not even close to being the most expensive membership in town... other groups are 50 bucks or more...

Tone of voice doesn't work in text-only communication.

Membership in our community theatre is $25 a year.  Our "perks" are the occassional newsletter, advanced personal notice of tickets being on sale, invitations to the annual meeting and awards night, and frequent emails asking for help on sets and anything else we are working on.  However,  we have many people who are great contributors to our theatre that have never paid a membership.  We consider them equally valuable as those who pay a membership.  They are willing to fold table tents and staple them,  they work on sets, do tech for the theatre,  bring cookies to serve during intermission, and act on our stage.  We do not require that our volunteers pay up in order to help.  That would defeat the purpose.  Many of our members can ONLY support us by paying a membership and coming to shows -- they are too elderly to come and swing a hammer.  Everyone who wants to give, gives what he/she can.  That is community at it's best.