Tech Week Dead Ahead

29Jun08

I’m about 65% sure that I’m no longer filled with plague, but I have been coughing and sneezing an awful lot for the past few weeks.  I’m just hoping that it doesn’t get any worse over the next few days.

Tech week starts on Monday.  That fabulous, happy, wonderful time starts in less than 30 hours.  I am not excited.  It’s going to be a lot of figuring out where the actors are backstage, and where my crews and I can be, so as to not be in the way.  It’s going to be a lot of random cue problems and timing issues and line drops and angry directors.  Hopefully no one will be angry with me, but I have yet to give them a reason to be.  I think the only person that doesn’t particularly like me is the director of our 2 Gents musical.  She’s very impatient, and clearly does not like having to wait for things or hearing the word “no”.  Unfortunately for her, that’s what happens when there’s only one person setting up an entire backstage for a run-through.  Understandably or not, her condescending calls of, “Are we ready?” and “Can we go now?” finally got to me on Friday night, which resulted in me shouting from the backstage to just give me five minutes and that I would let her know when we can start.  The cast is still wondering how I didn’t get shouted at, much less thrown out of rehearsal.

I’m realizing that, for all the thanklessness this job entails, and for all of the crap I have to put up with, I really do have a lot of pull.  I have yet to miss a day of rehearsal, and I can’t help but wonder how many things would fall apart if I did.  Would all of the props for the three shows make it to their rightful places?  Would actors know who to ask about different things, since our stage manager is usually too busy to answer questions?  Maybe that’s why I didn’t get thrown out of rehearsal.

I’m not anticipating particularly regular entries until after we open all three shows, when my life calms down at least a little bit.

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