Well tonight was closing night for Laughing Wild...a happy and sad thing at the same time....
As a cast/crew unit we got on strike 2 with the director...but she is a good sport, she's awesome..plus she knows there are ways to get us back...but know this...
Techies ALWAYS have a way of messing you up or making you look stupid (Like the examples I will tell you about in a moment....)...it's the best part of our job. Hahaha.....

So, Strike #1....Our Light and Sound techs...
Sooo, the light guy, Mike, is the directors wife...and before the show she gets up and adresses the audience, (turn off cell phones and pagers[does anyone still have those] and season tix, etc, etc..) Well, she told Mike NO spotlight, just bring up houselights....
Note to self.... **When giving instructions BE SPECIFIC (and when taking them, you can TOTALLY read between the lines!)**
So, she never told the sound tech no spot...Soooo, they put a nice pink gel on the spotlight, and put that on her while she gave her little spheel...hehehe...We could hear her on our greenroom monitor....something like "I'm not use to the spotlight, damn I can't see...." after...she went to the light booth..."You guys..." And that was it....

Strike #2.... ON STAGE line change....
Soo...there is this line in the play where "the man" says.... "...that reminds me of someone I know and like named...Maratha Rhodes..." Before he went on stage, I said, "Clark, when that line comes up, say Elicia *last-name-here*"
And he didn't say anything....
Yet, as Carole *the woman* and I sat backstage listening to him, he said it!!! I was like OMG, he did it! And C. was suprised too, SCORE!

So, as techies we all the on headphones, (Cuz if we could read minds we wouldn't need them), I said, "So, how'd she like THAT one?" (The light and sound booth has clear view of everything not backstage.) Mike was like..."She's still laughing*her head in hands*"

And then during strike... Mike and I decided that the stage manager the the next play, "The Crucible" Which is Elicia, has to paint the stage. We told her and she looked at me with 'that look'.... (Because I am ASM for The Crucible) and I said, "Not the ASSISTANT SM, the SM...."

It's all in good humor...we all end up helping anyways....

Like with the curtains...the director for Crucible wants the back curtain moved back several feet...the thing is, is that you can't just un-hook and move the curtain back, you have to take them ALL down and then move the bars they hang on back too....and those are HEAVY bars! This guy just does NOT get it....
But whatever, we will end up doing it anyway...

Techies are THE most worked and least credited...Not that we really look for recognition...just making a point.

Sooo...the Crucible rehearsal for us continues on Monday....

And it's late and I am tired....been up since 6am....
And my kidneys hurt....No, seriously...my back, right where they are is giving me these sharp pains when I breath in and out.....

Yea, I need sleep.

I think I'll go to bed.

Oh, but before that...I have to say that this REALLY REALLY bitchy girl that had a part is the next play got "fired" SCORE!!! Now we don't have to deal with her! Elicia and I were like...We are gonna have to hold each other back to keep from beating this girl up...lol, kidding....

But seriously the safety of the actors is the least of my problems....every show I tell them, "Break a Leg!"

Although...this one guy told his friedn that once...and his friend really DID break his leg....

So, something less harmles...

"Hey, M-n-E, stub a toe!!!"


Over-N-Out

TechieInTheBlackWhoseInPain

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