This year I included a wish on my 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.
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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Date: 2014-01-08 07:06 pm (UTC)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?
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Date: 2014-01-09 06:27 pm (UTC)Hooray! I'm really hoping Syringa Tree sells well, but I'm afraid we might be in the same boat.
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Date: 2014-01-09 07:08 pm (UTC)We had our first preview last night and we got a standing ovation.
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Date: 2014-01-09 07:10 pm (UTC)Sadly, our opening scene - the actor is supposed to be delivering a sermon and he went blank... yeah, that was a first...
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Date: 2014-01-09 07:12 pm (UTC)Oh no! Did he get it back in a timely fashion?
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Date: 2014-01-09 07:24 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2014-01-13 10:12 pm (UTC)It's a female dog getting old.
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