I JUST got through my first tech week as ASM/AD (Nov. 13-17), it was an interesting ride. Monday, the administration cancelled our Friday night show due to a playoff football game at the school, Wednesday (the day of our first performance), our sound decided to stop working and I had to run home with my SM and burn all new cds for the music during 5th period, Thursday at 10:30pm I got a call from one of our actresses (I was still at the school) on my cell phone saying that her grandfather was in a hospital in Tampa dying and that her and her family were going over there and she didn't know if she would be back in time for our in-school performance the next day so we had one of our other actresses quickly learn the part and spent all of Friday morning training her just in case. All day Friday one of our actors was throwing up in the bathroom due to a stomach virus that had been going around and our lead walked offstage in the middle of rehearsal and refused to come back until he was finished with lunch. Everyone was so on edge, it took me the entire lunch period to pull myself together.
Tuesday, our open dress rehearsal was............., let's just say sub-par. Wednesday I was so nervous, I felt like there were teridactyls in my stomach. I was really, really, really anxious and jumpy all day until my SM gave me a little pep talk, he also bought me M&Ms which helped too
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Everything worked out well in the end, the performances went pretty much smoothly and our actress drove 3 hours back from Tampa to perform in the show (she deserves sooo much credit, her grandfather died at 12:30pm and she went on at 2:40pm).
Right now we're getting our show "Scapino" ready for district competition and brainstorming for our spring musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat".
I serously do not know what I would have done if I didn't have such an outstanding director who is so patient and understanding.