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ghost_light ([personal profile] ghost_light) wrote2014-12-31 01:41 pm
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Live Theatre Post

This year I included a wish on my [livejournal.com profile] holiday_wishes list for people to support local theatre and shows. This is your place to tell me about what you have seen this year.
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[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-09 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, I will have to check it out. We are always on the look out for smaller shows. What sort of tech requirements?

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-10 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Painted set, no props, just lights and sound.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-10 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like our current show. What's next on the line up for you? WE audition for Avenue Q this weekend.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-10 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Three different burlesque shows in Feb (and I will be at exactly NONE of the rehearsals....shoot me)

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-10 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You want to trade? We are hosting a beauty pageant in February, but other than that and rehearsals for "Avenue Q," we are dark for the month.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, I'm looking forward to the burlesque, but I'm really missing skating.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, skating is one of those no-no things for me now. I trashed my back flipping a platform back in '05. Now, like so many other techs, I am plagued with back issues.

It's a female dog getting old.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a terribly bad back and skating has helped a lot.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I had to undergo surgery and have a mess of hardware put in to support my spine. My surgeon would throttle me if I tried. One bad fall and I could be permanent messed up. So, sadly none of that or horse riding, mountain climbing, 4x4, jumping, etc. He saved me from a life in a wheelchair, so I tend to follow his instructions petty closely these days.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Mine is pretty fucked up, bit not requiring hardware. My only restriction is that if I take a fall and my hand goes numb, I need to seek help immediately because I likely ruptured one of the herninated discs in my neck.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine is in my lower back - lumbar - and was making my legs go wonky. As long as I am careful, don't exceed my weight limit, and try not to forget that I'm disabled now, I should be able to avoid anymore surgery. Still doesn't keep me from theatre - the things you do for love.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Theatre is imperative! ;)

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been doing it since 1974. Couldn't live without it.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I started in 7th grade and took a couple breaks.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I was in tenth grade and got suckered in when a friend asked if I had anything to do after school one day. My whole world changed...

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
My dad was bitching about having to go to the school plays to watch other kids and suggested I audition for the next one.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, you have to appreciate parents. Mine just sent our theatre a resume (yeah, right). He wants to design "Legally Blonde" next year, but I think he just wants to come home for a while (he works on Broadway as a designer) on our dime.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's really kind of awesome!

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering there was no pressure for him to follow his old mum. My best moment was building a set for him (South Pacific). Ironically, it was the last set I built as my back blew after that.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
My mom enjoys seeing plays, but neither of them ever pursued it.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
My folks never really expressed an interest in seeing anything I'd done, well, when I was in high school they came. But then I moved to the West Coast and that was that.

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. Mom hasn't seen one of my shows since college, my dad since high school.

[identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You are lucky they are still with you. I lost Da in 1983 and Mum in 2000...

[identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I really am. I got to see them at Christmas this year.
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