When it all gets too much, there is a lovely cocktail I have - Ibbuprofin, cold and flu meds, throat medicine, diazapam, caffine and of course more caffine (not all at once of course, but stagered throughout the day). It is a patch-up thing only. I am one of those people who is not happy unless they have an overbooked schedule, so I often end up needing my cocktail of drugs for a few weeks and then crashing for a few days after it. It is most definatly not recomended. Last week for example, I was calling a morning panto, a matine musical, and a night time caberet. For an entire week. Get up at 4am to get to the panto at 5:30, ready for an 8am curtain. Close at 10am, get to the next theatre by 11am ready for a 1pm curtain, close at 3, get to the caberet by 5pm ready for a 7pm show, which closed at 11pm, eat dinner at 12am (provided at the caberet) get home at 1am and sleep till 4.
The only thing that kept me alive was the caffine I carried arround. It was probably the most fun I have had in a while. The progressive bumpouts were a bit rough though. I crashed for two days straight after it. No shows till next week and then I start rehearsals (4 weeks) for a show that will bump in christmas eve (and as mentioned in another thread, I will probably finish the bumpin on christmas day, alone).
The things we do for the jobs we live.