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October 15, 2007

What I Meant to Say

Was that yesterday was really relaxing. I slept in. I stayed in my jammies until 1pm. I caught up on my blog reading. I planted bulbs. (Three kinds of daffodils, red and white perrenial tulips, scilla, crocus, snowdrops and English bluebells.) I ate a leisurely lunch. I spent a lot of time snuggled with cats. It was wonderful.

Until about 4pm. When I went to the theatre for our first full tech runthrough and learned they were still struggling with the dry tech. (Don't even ask about Saturday. Saturday was our cue-to-cue and it was just hard.) The ASM met me at the door with, "Sally! Why are you here? You know you don't have to be here until--"
"Until 4," I said.
"What time is it?"
"Ten til."
"Oh. Oh NO."
Our straight six took seven and a half hours. I'm tired again.

Posted by sally at October 15, 2007 08:25 AM

Comments

Dude, long techs are not OK.

Nice thing about the kind of theatre I do here is that long techs are impossible. The bad thing is that sometmes performances and techs are the same thing.

Posted by: fire4hairlady [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 15, 2007 09:44 AM

It's educational theatre. Sometimes that stuff happens because people are learning. Unfortunately, sometimes that stuff happens in educational theatre because people are flakes. One of the reasons the straight 6 took 7.5 hours is because our light board op DISAPPEARED during a break and couldn't be found for 15 minutes. There were at least 30 people waiting for her to get her shit together so we could continue with our work.

I kind of miss professional theatre.

Posted by: Sallyacious [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 17, 2007 09:10 AM

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