Yay this one is interesting and I love it! I wouldn't really consider it unprofessional except by the Director's actions toward me in some performances.. I'm a newly actress, well going in that direction so this is all from my techie experiences and a few acting..
Elementary school..
I was called on stage at a random thing so it was on the sight playing, and it was me and this other kid named Matthew Littlejohn.. We were supposed to throw a character off stage, but I froze and didn't want to throw him off stage because it was FAR to the ground so I just threw his turtle mask off stage, though it was a professional and they would have been able to handle the fall I was mordified because I didn't want to hurt someone!
I don't remember what the name of the play was but I was a cat, and I had made my own costume out of my Gymnastics outfits with my leotard, tights, stockings.. Well my line was simple and I still remember it because I was a lead.. It was "And the cat goes meow meow fiddle iiii feeee." Well after every time I did that of course I had to act like a cat which I did perfectly yet... I would always take the sturups from my tights and walk in them instead of keeping my shoes on... One of the kids who gave me so much crap all my life told me I should take off my tights! I didn't though... It was just annoying..
Fifth grade play... I was in a cardboard canoe as an indian and we were supposed to go through the water because it was the 'Louis and Clark' scene and the funny thing is those who were making the waves go forgot we had to come through them so they basically made it look like an indian was cut off at the stomach randomly going through water.
May/June 2006 Mass Appeal
First off I was supposed to go to a Dreamgirls production meeting, but I went to the theatre the night before I got the dates mixed up and I asked for the director of the performance, but this director [we will call her 'Sussie']was like "Oh well, you missed them your coming with us.." I didn't really have a say in it so all I could do was nodd. I went into the rehersals and bloody hell the SM was unprepared, she was always late with getting the props out. Because this was a black box production I was given three roles.. The tech booth was upstairs overlooking the black box.. Right before opening I would have to do the pre-show music which was no problem. Their sound system sucked. I had to switch cds in the middle of my work, run downstairs [no ghost lights, nor other lights were allowed to be on so I was running down stairs and fell.] run behind the stage, open the door QUIETLY go behind the scenery, get the props, and follow the SM because with it I was the ASM, Props, Sound. After we did that, she never got her spike marks. I had to fix it with a desk all by myself, I exited and ran back upstairs hoping to make it in time to change the cd into bells instead of scene changing music. By the second night I did everything without shoes so I didn't make as much noise. Opening night they forced me to go to the cast party, I was 20 at the time, and everyone else was over the age of 30 and balding even my director! The whole run of the show was horrible.
June/July Dream Girls 2006
The day after all of that I was on top of everything doing a production back to back. I was sick already and so the SM was very nice about it and understanding.. During Mass Appeal at nights I had Dream Girls rehersals during the day so I was at the theatre from 7am - 11pm and barely able to go home.. Well with this one the props designer totally flucked the mics up and made them look all sparkly instead of the wireless ones.. During the run of the show the sound board the old skool kind kept going out on me so I would switch over to lights while the lighting person fixed the sound board.. Closing night we were recording, and being techies we were always putting puns to everything so the ASM would bring stuff up and try to make a joke out of it. During one part I had to run through the prop room downstairs to the ASM to have him do something for us.. The night we were filmming, we were singing rather loudly and the door swung open.
Barefoot In the Park August 2006 -
I got rather sick during this and the director wouldn't let me have something to drink so I wouldn't die coughing, though I was in the tech booth and the day I didn't show up because I had a high fever of 102 she fired me though I wasn't being paid and I went all out on her saying I was glad because the acting sucked and it was a horrible show. Because it was.
Alice in Wonderland June 2007
Pretty much got hired on the spot at the last moment because they didn't have a props person and so it was me.. Having never made props except for some up at school in 2004 for 'Once Upon a Mattress' I didn't have experience in what she wanted so I winged it as much as possible. I was up for days upon end trying to improve the props each time. I took them by the theatre and I was told they were 'ok' but then I found actors through around my props, laughing at them and basically had me in tears.. Needless to say this director sucked because she REWROTE the whole play... It was horrible and I was taken for granted. Sure I got paid... But I never got paid for the props I had to buy. I had spent 150 dollars.
Treasure Island July 2007
Same theatre, pretty much a lot of the same actors, different director, but the director who directed Alice in Wonderland was in this production so I had gotten directions from two different people... The SM was horribly rude, saying I had a bad attitude and I never checked my spots.. She b**ched me out and said I needed to stop f*cking around or I was going to lose my job... I had done the props for this too, and I didn't know that 'mash' meant food so I didn't get food for the props... Well the director of the last one yelled at me and pretty much had me in tears a lot.. It was horrible because I was trying my hardest, and I was told I needed to get a smiling pirates flag.. I'm sorry pirate flags aren't smiling. SO I told her I would make one and this guy drew out a picture of what I should make it look like.. Me never being a good artist tried my hardest to do it and it turned out perfect except the director of last show didn't like it and said I was wrong in doing that when I was getting direction from two different directors one constantly changing her mind... The director of AIW rewrote Treasure Island too and it was HORRIBLE!!!!
The other one has been harrassing me about returning a prop back when I'm not one to say no, so I hadn't returned it and finally she came and picked it up from my house...
Needless to say I did have some fun with a lot of my teching, just not with Alice in Wonderland, Mass Appeal, or Treasure Island. I saw the SM from Treasure Island this past week who gave me a go to hell look and she was jealous of me because I was invited to the TUTS casting of Dreamgirls Cast party it was awesome...
The world is a stage, we are it's players. - BKLYN
I'm going to be famous... ONE OF THESE DAYS!
Next year I have to spend every day with this horrible director, because my counselor forced me into the theater class. That should be fun. Not. 
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