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[insomniak]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:49pm

Do they always end in tears? Seriously, there are some nightmares out there...

ETA- Good that you got past needing to show off... something I need to learn. Updated On: 11/27/04 at 08:49 PM

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:50pm

"Oh yes, the fat, musical theatre loving, grade geek becomes a Bway Star!!!"
sweet suffering Jesus I hope so

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:51pm

NTG - being smart is ALWAYS GOOD ... ps - grades don't = intelligence - they just help you get into good colleges.

computers beyond repair?

We'll see, Mr. Browne took down the keyboard and cleaned it....he's pretty great with electronics... if not - a new keyboard shouldn't be too big a deal...

it's the powerbook - the one with the faster processor is dead and I'm spoiled by OS X in a big way...

I really need a new one (or rebuilt - I seldom buy them new, new)

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:53pm

::sigh::

Okay, I need to get OUT of this mood...

Someone say something random.

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:53pm

I don't know anything about computers except how to break them. Good luck with yours.

*high-fives NTG*

Power to the grade geeks! I'm going to be up to my eyeballs in homework next year with IB, but I figure that it's worth the places it will take me and it's not like I've got a social calendar to accomedate.

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:54pm

I'm already up to my eyeballs...and I'm only a sophomore.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:54pm

NTG something random:
I'm wearing fannel pjs for the first time since Feb.
edit: eyeballs! pah! I'm up to my widow's peak! Updated On: 11/27/04 at 08:54 PM

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:55pm

as a woman - for the rest of your life - if you stand up for yourself and insist on quality in all things...

YOU MORE THAN LIKELY WILL BE LABLED A B***

get used to it.

I've worked more tech than you could ever dream. I am still a union wardrobe worker and a union Bway usher. I've built sets, hung lights, bought/found/made props... you name it.

It all makes you a better performer and certainly gives you a deeper understanding of the collaborative process (it also makes you safer backstage)

(I used to see 'em fat n' miserable too... grew out of it though... just don't care anymore)

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:56pm

Fannel?

I had my windows open last night...it was amazing.

Random: I think we're finally getting our wall knocked down and repaired next week...I dunno if I like that or not. I kinda think the cracks in the wall ought to just stay. Stupid tree.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:58pm

There are usher unions? I always thought they were volunteers

I was a stage manager for a show my sophmore year. I will NEVER do it EVER again, but it did give me a great more deal of respect for people who do it as a profession.
Power to the SMs, one of the most thankless jobs in the biz.

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 8:58pm

Flannel in FLORIDA? You kids are nuts. How cold is it down there? What are your winters like?

Fredi, rock on. I'm a techie and I loathe actors who, even in highschool, think they're too good to pick up a screwgun. They're also the ones who tend to break things more often. It makes life backstage a misery, it's basically babysitting. Did anyone ever break anything in Rent or Lion King? I bet a lot of the puppets used in the latter were fragile.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:00pm

"Stupid tree."
I'm just glad you and your 'rents and the birds were alright after that massive acursed 200 yr old oak crashed into your roof
Hurricanes are REAL b*tches for sure!

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:00pm

It's in the 50's right now. We just pretend it's cold cuz otherwise we feel deprived.

It's raining too...which is gonna keep me up all night freaking out that our house is going to flood. I swear, I'm permanently traumatized...

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:01pm

Yes sommy, Flannel in FLORIDA.
But is it anymore pecular than radios playing Xmas music this early?

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:03pm

I've heard it worse, star2be. Sometimes they start after Halloween. That's just ridiculous.

NTG, you are not deprived. at. ALL. Trust me, I'm out there at 6:50 in temperatures in the single-digits, waiting on the bus... gah.

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:04pm

Four houses on my street have their lights up. And we have our tree up (not decorated), and I made a pretty wreath on Wed.

Yay. Oh and I have to start O Holy Night rehearsals soon. There's a lotta ticked off people in the choir who don't want to sing backup for a 16 year old.

Fredi, if we're getting annoying...feel free to say so.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:04pm

break a puppet in Lion King?

are you kidding....? Like you want them in your check for the next 50 years... it would be worse than school loans.

truth - I don't know if they'd make you pay - but EVERYONE was very careful...

granted wear and tear is a different story - those puppets go through a lot onstage (like the time Stiffy's head fell off...)

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:04pm

I think I speak for NTG and myself when I say,
"I WISH we had weather like that or at least the OPTION of snow!"

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:06pm

"like the time Stiffy's head fell off..."
did that happen onstage?

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:06pm

His head fell off? During a performance? How did you cover that one? It might change the storyline just a little tiny bit if Simba died...

star2be, snow is beautiful but we don't get much here, just a lot of cold.

NTG, you wanna talk about Christmas lights... *shivers* There are some truly garish displays on my street. The house two doors down is just hideous.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:09pm

I love the Christmas thing... though I agree it seems to start earlier every year.

It's a marketing thing though....

Lights, etc are going up around us too... very picturesque - I live in a small town near the Atlantic and it's really pretty - picture postcard pretty.

We'll do our tree later though - too soon for all that.

Christmas in Barbados is a trip - tropical w/Santa... bizarre.

as for Florida - why would you even want to be cold? That's the one thing I loved about Barbados - Shorts and sandals on Christmas Day!!! Oh yes - that's the life for me.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:12pm

re: stiffy's head...

oh yeah - changes the story just a bit -

HEADLINE: Baby Simba's head falls off in opening scene. Lion King goes from 3hr musical to 5 minute short.

I had to hold his head on and balance it so it wouldn't drop over the side of pride rock....

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:12pm

Because we never get to be!

You have not truly experience Florida until you have spent five days in 95 degree weather with no power, no air conditioning, seventy bags of leaves to be shoveled, and an 80 ft tall, 5 ft wide tree on your house.

Oh, and then you have to do that two more times.

I really do NOT like where I live...

Updated On: 11/27/04 at 09:12 PM

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:14pm

don't worry NTG - when you move to NYC you'll get to FREEZE your butt off running to auditions with a ton of bags and SHOVEL TONS OF SNOW just to get out of your door.

And it won't be pretty "white" snow, if you know what I mean....

all this and more awaits you on the streets of New York...

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/27/04 at 9:14pm

"You have not truly experience Florida until you have spent five days in 95 degree whether with no power, no air conditioning, seventy bags of leaves to be shoveled, and an 80 ft tall, 5 ft wide tree on your house.

Oh, and then you have to do that two more times."

Ah yes, our fun filled four horsemen of the apocolypse: Charley Frances Ivan and Jeanne

sorry Mrs.Browne, I'm gonna havta agree to disagree with you here
"love ya baby, nothing personal"