College production. We go into tech on Sunday (as in, two days from now) and the two guys who said they would do run crew (we only really need a crew of three - them plus the ASM) backed out today. Throwing me into a frenzy of phone calls to anyone I can think of, but the answer has been no, no, no so far.
Last semester on the show I worked on, no one could do run crew and we ended up making the actors do it. It worked pretty well, but sucked for the actors.
The scene changes in this show are very small: I think the most involved one is moving on a set of subway seats. So the advice I need is this:
Go crazy continuing to make dozens of phone calls and sending a million emails looking for people? Or, use the actors since the scene changes are really uninvolved anyway?
I'm leaning towards actors, but I'd really like to know what you all think.