A brief respite.
Well, it's finally up and running. And all the politics and BS games are starting as well.
Once again we didn't get paid on Friday. Opening night.
The board president came in and explained that while we didn't have it now, donations were coming in fast and sales were picking up and word of mouth was good, so the prognosis was good. When money comes in, the pecking order is, Equity Actors, Non-eq. actors, Band, and then staff.
The collective group of actors and staff then held a pow-wow in the lobby (to which, since the booth phone is on D.N.D. (:-O) and nobody bothered to call up the stairs, they assumed that since lights were on for the rehearsal, and that rehearsal was still in progress, that I wasn't there, and thus missed the announcements and powwow. None of them are very smart around here any more) The consensus was that everybody would work until next Friday, if by then everybody wasn't paid, we'd walk. Also decided was that each group would have a representative to meet with Boss and board to get DAILY updates. Word came out this morning that the Equity folk got their checks today.
Needless to say, the mood for opening night was less than jovial. A lot of heavy drinking was involved. There was a party at Xanadu also, which was greatly needed. I, myself, did a lot of brandys, since they had no Captain, only Appletons and Bacardi.
I've become very fond of the new props girl, J. I even snuck out with her to go see the AET show across town today. Wife was under the impression that we had two shows today when we only had the second one, but AET had both. It was a really fun show, an original script based on the PG Wodehouse characters of Wooster and Jeeves. Great cast of old-time NAT people, Barry, Patsy, Gary, DaveG., and Lydia. And they got a RAVE review from Vic at the paper. Who doesn't like farce. So that was a lot of fun, and even ran into S at the theatre, so we roped her into seeing it again with us. S and J are really hitting it off, and when I had to go to work they went on the town on their own. I think there's also poker tonight, but after coming in at 4 last night, I need to spend some home time for a bit. Speaking of which, I need to get out of here, it's almost midnight and I'm already locking up.
I'll post more about the show later. I have pix too, but the camera was in my vest that I left at the actors post-party last night. I'll post those too soon.
Once again we didn't get paid on Friday. Opening night.
The board president came in and explained that while we didn't have it now, donations were coming in fast and sales were picking up and word of mouth was good, so the prognosis was good. When money comes in, the pecking order is, Equity Actors, Non-eq. actors, Band, and then staff.
The collective group of actors and staff then held a pow-wow in the lobby (to which, since the booth phone is on D.N.D. (:-O) and nobody bothered to call up the stairs, they assumed that since lights were on for the rehearsal, and that rehearsal was still in progress, that I wasn't there, and thus missed the announcements and powwow. None of them are very smart around here any more) The consensus was that everybody would work until next Friday, if by then everybody wasn't paid, we'd walk. Also decided was that each group would have a representative to meet with Boss and board to get DAILY updates. Word came out this morning that the Equity folk got their checks today.
Needless to say, the mood for opening night was less than jovial. A lot of heavy drinking was involved. There was a party at Xanadu also, which was greatly needed. I, myself, did a lot of brandys, since they had no Captain, only Appletons and Bacardi.
I've become very fond of the new props girl, J. I even snuck out with her to go see the AET show across town today. Wife was under the impression that we had two shows today when we only had the second one, but AET had both. It was a really fun show, an original script based on the PG Wodehouse characters of Wooster and Jeeves. Great cast of old-time NAT people, Barry, Patsy, Gary, DaveG., and Lydia. And they got a RAVE review from Vic at the paper. Who doesn't like farce. So that was a lot of fun, and even ran into S at the theatre, so we roped her into seeing it again with us. S and J are really hitting it off, and when I had to go to work they went on the town on their own. I think there's also poker tonight, but after coming in at 4 last night, I need to spend some home time for a bit. Speaking of which, I need to get out of here, it's almost midnight and I'm already locking up.
I'll post more about the show later. I have pix too, but the camera was in my vest that I left at the actors post-party last night. I'll post those too soon.
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