...It Just Goes On and On, My Friends...
12:00 a.m. - Bedtime, I've been up for 24 hours. I have to be up at 6 to paint more, the lighting designer is taking over stage at 8.
8:00 a.m. - Woken by TD, having slept in. The set is nowhere near completely painted, I have not even base painted the car which is a major scenic element. The lighting designer is doing focus notes, so the stage is almost completely dark, with intermittent bursts of light.
10:45 a.m. - The lighting designer finally give me some constant light onstage. I couldn't argue because I had overslept and was supposed to be offstage during this time.
12:00 p.m. - Quick lunch, car is painted, most everything else is at least underway. (Every previous show this season has been finished, with the exception of notes from the director, at this point.)
1:20 p.m.- The producer stops by rehearsal and pulls me to the side. He is upset that the onstage masking is black, and feels that the show is too morbid looking, and should be more colorful. This is, by the way, the third time he has seen the set, and each previous time he approved of it.
1:45 p.m. - Final dress begins. I have had no time to address the producer's concerns.
4:30 p.m.- The dress has finished, but the director and choreographer want to keep the stage until 5:30 when they were scheduled to leave. Neither is concerned that I still have work onstage. The director has spoken to the producer, and knows what he asked me to do, but won't release the stage so that I can do anything.
5:30 p.m - Dinner. I take 10 minutes to wolf down what I can get my hands on and then dive back into the painting. I've decided to put stripes of colored tape along the portals to alleviate some of the darkness, so that at least can be done without having to wait for paint to dry.
6:30 p.m. - I have to leave stage so that there will be time for everything to dry before actors enter stage in costume, and the likelihood of a costume getting ruined occurs. The tape is up, and some other touch ups have been completed. I just accept that some of the more "refined" notes that I wanted to do are not going to get done. (Shikata ga nai!)
7:30 p.m. - The house is open, people are being seated, I am running around backstage frantically trying to complete tasks that are not my job in the first place. Things that should have been done already, but... well... you know.
8:00 p.m. - The show begins.
Tomorrow there will be time for second coats and final touch-ups and maybe a few refinements, but not too many because there is a matinee. The director for the next show also arrives tomorrow, so I'll have to begin work on that show fairly rapidly. No rest for the wicked.
As the perfect post script to my day the producer announced this morning that the show is selling so well that he added a second performance to the final sunday. The final sunday is normally when change over for the NEXT show begins at 5:30, this time I'll have 5 less hours to complete the set.
8:00 a.m. - Woken by TD, having slept in. The set is nowhere near completely painted, I have not even base painted the car which is a major scenic element. The lighting designer is doing focus notes, so the stage is almost completely dark, with intermittent bursts of light.
10:45 a.m. - The lighting designer finally give me some constant light onstage. I couldn't argue because I had overslept and was supposed to be offstage during this time.
12:00 p.m. - Quick lunch, car is painted, most everything else is at least underway. (Every previous show this season has been finished, with the exception of notes from the director, at this point.)
1:20 p.m.- The producer stops by rehearsal and pulls me to the side. He is upset that the onstage masking is black, and feels that the show is too morbid looking, and should be more colorful. This is, by the way, the third time he has seen the set, and each previous time he approved of it.
1:45 p.m. - Final dress begins. I have had no time to address the producer's concerns.
4:30 p.m.- The dress has finished, but the director and choreographer want to keep the stage until 5:30 when they were scheduled to leave. Neither is concerned that I still have work onstage. The director has spoken to the producer, and knows what he asked me to do, but won't release the stage so that I can do anything.
5:30 p.m - Dinner. I take 10 minutes to wolf down what I can get my hands on and then dive back into the painting. I've decided to put stripes of colored tape along the portals to alleviate some of the darkness, so that at least can be done without having to wait for paint to dry.
6:30 p.m. - I have to leave stage so that there will be time for everything to dry before actors enter stage in costume, and the likelihood of a costume getting ruined occurs. The tape is up, and some other touch ups have been completed. I just accept that some of the more "refined" notes that I wanted to do are not going to get done. (Shikata ga nai!)
7:30 p.m. - The house is open, people are being seated, I am running around backstage frantically trying to complete tasks that are not my job in the first place. Things that should have been done already, but... well... you know.
8:00 p.m. - The show begins.
Tomorrow there will be time for second coats and final touch-ups and maybe a few refinements, but not too many because there is a matinee. The director for the next show also arrives tomorrow, so I'll have to begin work on that show fairly rapidly. No rest for the wicked.
As the perfect post script to my day the producer announced this morning that the show is selling so well that he added a second performance to the final sunday. The final sunday is normally when change over for the NEXT show begins at 5:30, this time I'll have 5 less hours to complete the set.
you whine like a little girl with skinned knees.
Ladies and gentlemen, my roommate: M. Welcome, M. Don't forget that just because I have been out of town for two months doesn't mean I've forgotten where you SLEEP, or where you hide your porn. I WILL tell your girlfriend dirty stories about you.