There was water everywhere. All my drainage improvements were overflowing. Not too much damage on our property. We are lucky.
It's official. I am really a stage hand in the Broadway Review. Not something I relish. It is just hard, back breaking work. I am back to sweating profusely during the play, just like El Grande de Coca Cola, only that was from the acting.
It is hard to wear a cowboy hat that doesn't fit for the next scene and shlep around heavy staging.
I have a grand total of 3 minutes 15 seconds on stage for a 90 minute play. All that rehearsing for a paltry couple of minutes...and the worse act in the play to boot.
So, really I am a stage hand who gets out on stage for a few minutes between the heavy lifting.
If I had only known...
There is an interesting twist to this production.
New curtains have been installed on the front of the stage. To open and close the curtains, something that happens for each act, a person on each side of the stage has to pull the curtain rope. They ran out of money for the more expensive single pull curtains.
Problem, one guy has some intelligence and the other one is brain dead so one curtain opens quickly and the other one s-l-o-w-l-y, oh so slowly.
This curtain puller is a little twit, with an attitude. He gets shitty when they ask him to open the damn curtain quickly. He throws a little snit fit, full of gay attitude, that only a nelly guy can do.
To make matters worse, he is a drunk. What's the probability that we won't have a curtain pulling incident in the play?
You can't make this stuff up. It has to happen in real life.
2 comments:
Gosh, the 3 minutes of fame 'trade-out' for 87 minutes of hard stage labor, reminds me of an ego trade I made where a man hired me for a small amount, but gave me the title of 'manager'. the very first day I found out why - about every third person through the door came in shouting, "I wanna see the F***ing manager!!"... Oh well! Still Learning. Love You, Darshan
You got it! It is hard to work around all those self important actors...hey wait a minute...I'm one of those self important actors. May there be a lesson here?
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