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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.

Date: 2014-01-03 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Heh, your icon reminds me of something one of my TD's said. One day when an actor was telling us that if it wasn't for him (and his ilk), we would have nothing to do. My TD responded, "If it wasn't for us, you'd be standing on a bare stage, naked and in the dark." Interesting enough, the guy couldn't make it as an actor and now works as a tech. There is such balance in nature.

Date: 2014-01-03 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
I did the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Summer Seminar as a teen. One of the projects was we had to defend high school theatre (as in "please don't cut our program!) to their board of directors. We did scenes, talked about the impact doing theatre had on us personally, then one of the guys got up and announced "Theatre without techies is just two naked people in the dark trying to emote!"

Re: Jumpimg In . . .

Date: 2014-01-05 07:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
Ted immediately became a hero to us all.

Date: 2014-01-04 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Oh man, your icon - the tech we did for "Hair" - we started at two in the afternoon and walked out at 2:30 the following morning...

Date: 2014-01-05 07:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
It came from a great thread on the old stage mangers network website.

Date: 2014-01-05 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
I have noticed that most of the theatre communities here have gone dormant. That's really a shame. I used to belong to a couple tech ones, but all that wanted to talk about were lights. Granted they are important, but so is every other aspect of techdom... did get some great jokes from other there, though.

Date: 2014-01-07 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
I was just thinking about how sad this is the other day.

Date: 2014-01-07 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
I will occasionally go searching for different communities on LJ and it's a shocker at how many there were but now are completely dormant. We are trying to kick alive one and it's tough because the owner is MIA and she has the community partially queued. It makes it very hard to post there.

Date: 2014-01-08 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
I've noticed that on so many communities lately. I'm considering a cut on the majority of my defunct ones.

Date: 2014-01-08 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
It's just so sad to lose them and yet it is the way it is. I have some that only open up once a year, so I tend to keep them, just in case.

Hurray, we are up to 34% on ticket sales for "Doubt" - don't you hate it when you are doing the best show you've done in years and no one comes?

Date: 2014-01-09 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
I'm totally a "just in case" person too. Nostalgia.

Hooray! I'm really hoping Syringa Tree sells well, but I'm afraid we might be in the same boat.

Date: 2014-01-09 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
We are at 35% at the moment. We need to hit 40% to break even. Our preview audience really enjoyed the show and the phones were busy this morning. Now, it's dropped off. Fingers crossed for a good review tomorrow.

Date: 2014-01-09 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
Keeping them crossed!

We had our first preview last night and we got a standing ovation.

Date: 2014-01-09 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Oh, break a leg! No standing O for us, but "Doubt" isn't that sort of show. We did have one patron tell us it was thought provoking and the actors were great.

Sadly, our opening scene - the actor is supposed to be delivering a sermon and he went blank... yeah, that was a first...

Date: 2014-01-09 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
It is a great script.

Oh no! Did he get it back in a timely fashion?

Date: 2014-01-09 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
It really is. I was on the artistic committee that chose it and I was blown away by it. Haven't heard of yours - comedy or something else?

He went dry for nearly a minute, which, of course, seems like a year when it's happening to you. We are seeing it tomorrow night and I can't wait. Now, if no one else's car gets broken into, I will be really happy.

Date: 2014-01-09 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-light.livejournal.com
It's a one-woman show about South Africa, really a beautiful script.

Date: 2014-01-09 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
Wow, I will have to check it out. We are always on the look out for smaller shows. What sort of tech requirements?

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

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

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

Date: 2014-01-10 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
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.

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

Date: 2014-01-13 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesgirl58.livejournal.com
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.

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