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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #60 on: Sep 04, 2011, 08:14 pm »
Inform.  Post.  E-mail.
Distribute the schedule.
It's on the call board.

You have a smart phone.
Stop asking me outside work.
Check your darn e-mail.

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(Edited to remove mild profanity.  ~T_G)
« Last Edit: Sep 06, 2011, 02:21 pm by tempest_gypsy »
“Perhaps, therefore, ideal Stage Managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their crafts, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.”

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #61 on: Nov 07, 2011, 12:20 pm »
Why are you crying?
HER costume is "prettier"?
Are you six years old?

You're crying again?
Think you deserve more stage time?
Wait, how old are you?
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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #62 on: Nov 08, 2011, 12:05 am »
No, it's not "bullsh*t"
to ask why you've decided
you don't need rehearsing.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. -Ionesco

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #63 on: Nov 08, 2011, 09:17 pm »
We're in tech now
It's where we figure it out
Your tantrum won't help.

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #64 on: Nov 09, 2011, 05:28 am »
No script, no props list
"Devised work is organic"
That's all fine with me

When you want some props
Don't be shocked that I can't get
It all on Tech day

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #65 on: Dec 03, 2011, 10:31 pm »
Read your new line notes.
You think this is for my health?
I had plans last night.

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #66 on: Dec 04, 2011, 12:25 am »
Show with fake curse words,
plus six-year-old boy equals
the kid writing f***
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #67 on: Dec 04, 2011, 03:27 am »
Gentle managers
do not scold when small words drop
like tiny leaves. But.

You skipped ten pages,
including crucial scene change
and major plot points.

Gentle managers
know the difference between
flower and whole tree.


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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #68 on: Dec 06, 2011, 12:49 am »
(from Three Sisters dress tonight)

Actor-ASM
bumps Sound's GO button-
The Baron's shot twice?
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. -Ionesco

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #69 on: Dec 06, 2011, 01:43 am »
(Response to missliz:)

As wise man once said:
In Pre-Soviet Russia
Cue calls manager.

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #70 on: Dec 06, 2011, 08:21 pm »
Please check your email,
you won't get call times by text.
You've worked here how many times?

You slept past your call,
somehow you make it MY fault?!?!
No, I'm not your mom.

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #71 on: Dec 08, 2011, 01:42 am »
I always start tech
in the house with cue light box.
No box? I'm backstage.

First tech and tiny
monitor - I can't see all.
Deal, or supply box.


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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #72 on: Dec 08, 2011, 12:28 pm »
With two days notice
Quit, to film big commercial?
I want a present!
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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #73 on: Dec 10, 2011, 10:02 pm »
For four years haikus
Have been my art medium.
You folks are awesome.

Incredibly, sir,
I do not find your dance skills
Worthy of spotlight.

"C means D happens"
"Yeah, D will never happen"
"... Ah, God, D happened!"

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #74 on: Dec 11, 2011, 01:23 am »
You do six show weeks
and had the matinee off
Wish I had that luck.

Do not tell me you
needed to go 'off template'
because you're tired

and needed to do
this to keep yourself awake.
Take the gosh darn note!!

 

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