compelled to post

I don't really have anything new to say. Today was our first two show day for this show. Two show days suck. Every time you turn around you are having deva ju? When we are doing a show everything I do is exactly the same - by design. I set everything in the exact same spot and I do it in the exact same order. To do it once a day is habit and order. To do it twice gets confusing. Did I do that yet? I have, but have I done it for this show or the last? You see where I am going with this.

This afternoon's audience was terrible. Today was a senior's tea matinee. If that was the actual story. What ever tickets the seniors don't buy they sell to high schools. So there were 68 seniors and just under 300 students. They were little brats. Now I have seen my fair share of bad student matinee of throwing stuff, cell phones, laser pointers and other such gadgets. Today they were talkers, mimickers and taunters. One of the first lines is the mom whispering to her daughter "Iris". These brats instantly started mimicking "Iris". The next highlight - the dad enters but doesn't fully go onstage to watch and over hear a conversation. The large group of kids that he was "hiding" in front of starting taunting him and telling him to F off, to go F himself and other stuff. The worst was near the end the mom and dad share this tender moment and then kiss - not passionately, very tender and loving - and very short. The kids started whistling and cat calls and other inappropriate things "way to go big boy" "give it to her". It was terrible. The actor left on stage after their exit waiting nearly 3 minutes for them to shut up before continuing the show. She nearly ended it - had it not been for the seniors that were there for a show too.

To all you teachers. I don't know how you do it. I wanted to throttle the lot of them. What were the teachers to do? 300 students spread out all making noise. The actors were really angry and it showed in our evening performance - which is not fair to those people. Oh well. I guess that is live theatre. However, I do know that those schools will be receiving some sort of follow up from the theatre.