Our Town opened Friday night,
Our Town opened Friday night, and since it was my first time Stage Managing I was a tad scared. And to top it all off Dean wasn’t planning on being there cause he wanted to go to this conference at church, which is understandable but we had been depending on him to run the second spotlight. So Dean decided to help us out and didnt go to church, something for which I will be forever grateful! Show went well Friday and the Saturday matinee went well except for having a few, okay 3 people, missing from our tech crew. But we worked it out. But the worst was Saturday night, the breaker kept tripping and we kept losing the spotlight, which we needed to spot the interpreter who was signing the show. And the sound cues weren’t stacking right and to top it all off my stage crew decided to get bitchy with me and gosh darnit I let them have it right back. Even before that show started I told all the kids in the cast that if I got another complaint about one of them they were out for next weekends shows. I was getting taken advantage of since I was so new to the show and I decided to just not put up with it. So with the help of Dean’s intimidating and very boisterous voice we managed to calm down the kids and I had enough courage to give the asst director some choice words of my own when she gave me lip. Yet despite that she ended up still disobeying the directors orders so who knows. I hate teenagers! Well, not all of them, just one in particular! So all in all it was a good opening weekend. And despite all the problems with last nights show we ended up having a great audience. They didnt laugh as much as the matinee audience but we had to set up extra chairs! So hopefully after having a few nights off my crew and cast will be where they need to be on Wednesday for brush up….
