Nap or Shower?
So, it's Sunday. Our load out last night went until 2ish AM and our load in this morning started at 6AM. It's our 5th city in 4 states in 2 countries in one week. We are T-I-R-E-D... But we have a travel day tomorrow and I expect we will all sleep until the early afternoon.
A brief recap? ok...
Wabash, Indiana. We had a crazy wig lady that not only showed up an hour early to every call but she talked non stop and was the kind that would follow you around still talking as you tried to get away from her. My crew was only moderately competent but the space was pretty large. It's a really bad night when the crew is incompetent AND the space is really tight AND we are all exhausted. We can all handle two of three. But three of three? Duck and cover... We had pizza for the second night in a row because there was nothing else open and we didn't have the time or means to get anywhere for dinner.
Portsmouth, Ohio. Groan. A mostly inexperienced crew of college and high school students. We walked in the door and were told that we were short a wig girl because “she got drunk last night and her dad won't let her come to work in the play...” Oh. My. Dear. Lord. That was the three of three night. And it was a matinee load in so we had started work at 7AM in the morning plus the space was really tight PLUS it's the only crew I've ever had that made more mistakes in the second show than they did in the first. We had two actors miss entrances because of dresser mistakes. Horrible. My crew head would just leave during the show for long stretches and take smoke breaks. And she was lazy. Horrible. I refused to make her work by the end of the show. I just let her stand around, which she was more than willing to do. Horrible. But the bonus was that there were only about 20,000 people in the town of Portsmouth so we figured between the people working and the two shows, we employed or entertained most of the families in town. And I had one really great girl on my crew who was willing to train all the other inexperienced dressers. Thank God for her...
Now we are in Mansfield, Ohio. Another 2 show day. We don't have any space on stage. None of our crew has worked a show this big. We can't store our gondolas inside because there isn't enough room. And it's snowing outside.
But we have no show tomorrow! So yay...
And Nap or Shower? That's the afternoon dilemma of a one nighter during our few brief moments of free time. I always pick shower. But I have much envy of the nappers.
More later
xox
k
A brief recap? ok...
Wabash, Indiana. We had a crazy wig lady that not only showed up an hour early to every call but she talked non stop and was the kind that would follow you around still talking as you tried to get away from her. My crew was only moderately competent but the space was pretty large. It's a really bad night when the crew is incompetent AND the space is really tight AND we are all exhausted. We can all handle two of three. But three of three? Duck and cover... We had pizza for the second night in a row because there was nothing else open and we didn't have the time or means to get anywhere for dinner.
Portsmouth, Ohio. Groan. A mostly inexperienced crew of college and high school students. We walked in the door and were told that we were short a wig girl because “she got drunk last night and her dad won't let her come to work in the play...” Oh. My. Dear. Lord. That was the three of three night. And it was a matinee load in so we had started work at 7AM in the morning plus the space was really tight PLUS it's the only crew I've ever had that made more mistakes in the second show than they did in the first. We had two actors miss entrances because of dresser mistakes. Horrible. My crew head would just leave during the show for long stretches and take smoke breaks. And she was lazy. Horrible. I refused to make her work by the end of the show. I just let her stand around, which she was more than willing to do. Horrible. But the bonus was that there were only about 20,000 people in the town of Portsmouth so we figured between the people working and the two shows, we employed or entertained most of the families in town. And I had one really great girl on my crew who was willing to train all the other inexperienced dressers. Thank God for her...
Now we are in Mansfield, Ohio. Another 2 show day. We don't have any space on stage. None of our crew has worked a show this big. We can't store our gondolas inside because there isn't enough room. And it's snowing outside.
But we have no show tomorrow! So yay...
And Nap or Shower? That's the afternoon dilemma of a one nighter during our few brief moments of free time. I always pick shower. But I have much envy of the nappers.
More later
xox
k
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