I'm waiting for the complaints to start rolling in. We open A Streetcar Named Desire on Friday night. Hmmm Tennessee Williams, set in the south in the late '40's, what do people do ?
Smoke, A lot! Of course since we are now so cuturally, and medicinally, sensitive we no longer smoke cigarettes on stage we smoke herbal cigarettes. God I hate the smell of herbal cigarettes. I'd rather smell a real cigarette than an herbal one. I got home from techs the other night and all I could smell was those nasty herbal cigarettes. I know the patrons are going to freak. People will be runing for the doors, and it's really not fair. It's a wonderful script, and this is an incredible production of it. I wish someone would invent a non-smelly, realistic, combusting cigarette. The fake ones with the powder in them suck, the herbals either smell like a fire in a poppuri factory or a Grateful Dead concert.
Oh well this is one time I'm going to be very glad I don't work front of house!
Smoke, A lot! Of course since we are now so cuturally, and medicinally, sensitive we no longer smoke cigarettes on stage we smoke herbal cigarettes. God I hate the smell of herbal cigarettes. I'd rather smell a real cigarette than an herbal one. I got home from techs the other night and all I could smell was those nasty herbal cigarettes. I know the patrons are going to freak. People will be runing for the doors, and it's really not fair. It's a wonderful script, and this is an incredible production of it. I wish someone would invent a non-smelly, realistic, combusting cigarette. The fake ones with the powder in them suck, the herbals either smell like a fire in a poppuri factory or a Grateful Dead concert.
Oh well this is one time I'm going to be very glad I don't work front of house!