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ghost_light) wrote2007-10-21 10:52 am
ghost_light) wrote2007-10-21 10:52 am
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*snerk*
So yesterday I was walking in the hall after the show and I hear one of my young actors loudly explaining to his grandparents; "You see, there is this word that you can't say because it's a really bad word, but everyone backstage has been saying this really bad word all the time and - "
So I pause and I call over "Don't worry about it, we'll deal with it tomorrow."
His grandmother's face nearly splits open with relief. "Oh good," she sighs. "You know about this?"
That is when it dawned on me and I found myself standing in the middle of the hallway in the Performing Arts Center explaining loudly for grandmother and all the other parents to hear:
"The really bad word that you can't say is not, repeat NOT the F-Bomb! It's only MacBeth! Not the F-Bomb!"
So I pause and I call over "Don't worry about it, we'll deal with it tomorrow."
His grandmother's face nearly splits open with relief. "Oh good," she sighs. "You know about this?"
That is when it dawned on me and I found myself standing in the middle of the hallway in the Performing Arts Center explaining loudly for grandmother and all the other parents to hear:
"The really bad word that you can't say is not, repeat NOT the F-Bomb! It's only MacBeth! Not the F-Bomb!"
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Man, I miss ATY.
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Here's the deal. When a theater is going to die, it brings out some old war horse that will fill the seats. "The Scottish Play" is one such warhorse. It's an amazing play, but there is a lot of room for something to go badly, if it is not done carefully. If the theater is going to die for financial reasons, they don’t nesecaraly have the time to put into stage combat rehearsals, and when that happens, someone is going to get hurt.
Even if no one gets hurt, if the play does not save the theater, it becomes the last play performed, and has been the last play performed by enough troops to get the reputation of being a "swan song."
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Even if I give you a clinical, detached answer as to why it’s bad, I will say that I have seen enough things around the Scottish Play that I do not tend to mess with it. Silly, perhaps.
Great story, however.
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I’m ME and Light board op for the show. Yesterday, the curtain was down, and all of a sudden I hear over the headset the ASM asking why an electric was coming to the deck.
Um… very good question, actually. Nothing major, the works on the third were locked on, so my SM jut brought the third in and unplugged the works. It’s still disconcerting to hear over the headset that electrics are moving a minute after the show was supposed to be open.
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