I feel like a science experiment

[suenix]

What do you get when you take 40 or so theatre
people and schedule five straight days of 10:30
AM matinees ? Staggering , sniffling zombies, thats
what. We are a true study in sleep deprivation.

We are now in day 3. And I have learned that the most effective
way to torture me is to set my alarm clock to 6 AM. I know that
millions of people do this every day. But , Damn, this sucks beyond compare.

To insult us even more today , it rained at rush hour .
In our fair city rain seems to turn already bad drivers into cretins.
By 7:15 there was already 1 total blockage of all lanes (12 in all )
of one of the major freeways. By showtime we still had two buses
of school children AWOL and we had to hold the curtain for almost a half
hour. Then, there were crying infants and one poor tourettes kid near the
front. There was just no fun to be had today.

And tomorrow? We do a morning show AND the 8PM opening night
performance. Followed by the party which will sparsely attended due to the
two shows we are scheduled on Saturday. But Sunday I predict an
out break of brain stealing.

Suenix

Comments

[lomer.livejournal.com]

Ah I feel your Christmas Carol pain. In the theatre where I did it, we would often have 10am matinees and then evening shows. It's very difficult to get into the Christmas spirit that early in the morning.

And then there's the fun school kids who decide THEY know its a play and proceed to whisper to the actors two feet away from them. "Tiny Tim's not really dead. You guys are just faking sad. Hey, hey, you're just pretending." Lovely.

I'll pray to the health fairy that no small children infect you with the flu! (That seemed to be the main brain-sucker of our Christmas Carol cast. Children, cute, but disease ridden.)

[scrubschick.livejournal.com]

*tucks an aromatherapy pillow under your head* Getting up early sucks. I'm one of those peeps who does it every day and it still sucks. Brain-stealing hadn't occured to me, tho. Hmmm... *hug*