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Well dang, I know what I'm doing after school today now. I'm pretty sure my school wasn't a bomb shelter, but there's gotta be something.

My stage manager and the choir director were staying after school last friday (I was away at an eight-hour orchestra practice, urgh) and both of them claimed that they saw a ghost strolling across the choir room and disappear. Maybe she's the one who turned all the mics off- the choir room is...

Hm, that's interesting. For Beauty and the Beast, when we were doing the castle battle scene (near the end), we had the guy who played the rug lie down in the CO2 and grab a townslady when she walks by. I don't know if he held his breath or not, but he was definitely covered by about a foot of...

Apparently, the French word "merde" means "break a leg." Suitably enough, it also means "crap." (Die sensors die!) We mutter that on headset every now and then, when it gets quiet or we're about to start a long line of cues.

We've got pencils, paper, an architect's scale, tape measure, a pocket knife (with all the screwdrivers built in and a decent pair of scissors attatched), multiple types of spare batteries, various pain killers and stomach relievers, some caffeine pills, bandaids, gauze and rags for serious...

Fun fact- our drama club's called Barefoot. Oddly enough, all of them wear shoes. Another fun fact- us techies, when left with a lot of spare time, will hang out in the theatre without shoes on (the theatre, not the stage). Many times they get hidden and/or thrown up into the spot booth. Yet...

Luckily for me the school hasn't blocked this website (yet), so I just pop in now and then during the day. Of course, I'm always on the internet anyway, so I may as well be here (instead of MySpace or something...) Welcome!

As the ASM for pretty much everything in our school this year, I'm pretty much my SM's *****. I write things down for him, focus lights while he directs where they should be, follow a script and call cues if he needs a nap...I'm usually his caffeine supplier as well (technically, he just steal's...

And special people who know how to properly use the special smoke and special mirrors!

If I were sm, I'd totally harness up and clip myself to a batten (properly weighted, of course) and call from above the stage. :twisted: Then you can really feel like God.

Ah. I dunno about Cue1go, but my crew and I are in highschool. So no scotch for us. I've always had nightmares about flying with an offweighted rope and grabbing a stationary one, and taking all the skin off my brake hand. Then again, I also have nightmares about the time I was moving stuff...

I'd do it from backstage. That way, if you have a problem with mics, you don't have to make the mad dash up to the stage to fix them. We usually set up several people with wireless mics set on our own private channel- the stage manager, someone on sound, someone on light, maybe flyrail and spot...

Maybe that should be part of the techie-training: moving silently. Like you attatch bells to a bunch of students and see who can get across an obstacle course the fastest and the quietest. You could do the Navy Seal walk or just wear socks :rolleyes: Ok, I know I know, please don't attack me...

I'm surprised the person who did that wasn't hung naked from the grid or something like that. That must've been terrible.

lol, probably. Imagine if we used whistles today over the headset...ow, that'd kinda hurt. I guess that's why we use cuelights...