It's almost like they tried to sabotage us.
Between our Sunday matinee and our Friday night performance, a group came in to do some kind of seminar. Here's the kicker to this: nobody on the crew knew about it. And apparently nobody hung around and acted as TD when the renters came through. So we all came in an hour before curtain on Friday, thinking everything was kosher, and it turns out that nothing was kosher. Every cable was unplugged from the sound board and the monitors in the house. Lights were hung that weren't there before. Several of the lights used in our show (including the house lights) were unplugged so that the new lights could be plugged in. Set pieces were missing. Spike marks were missing.
Everyone went into Hyper-Adrenaline Panic Mode and a flurry of activity began to take place. After all was said and done, we opened the house a few minutes late and the show went on. Hooray for nimble techies and instrument schedules.
Between our Sunday matinee and our Friday night performance, a group came in to do some kind of seminar. Here's the kicker to this: nobody on the crew knew about it. And apparently nobody hung around and acted as TD when the renters came through. So we all came in an hour before curtain on Friday, thinking everything was kosher, and it turns out that nothing was kosher. Every cable was unplugged from the sound board and the monitors in the house. Lights were hung that weren't there before. Several of the lights used in our show (including the house lights) were unplugged so that the new lights could be plugged in. Set pieces were missing. Spike marks were missing.
Everyone went into Hyper-Adrenaline Panic Mode and a flurry of activity began to take place. After all was said and done, we opened the house a few minutes late and the show went on. Hooray for nimble techies and instrument schedules.