Power Outage! — Page 3

Will Dollypop walk me down the aisle?

why, suelleen's trying on her gown! don't be rude, lol

then two minutes later sue busts into not getting married today...

well thanking god that Miss Daisy Hilton is alright and safe, who the hell would put us in our place is someone talked bad about Ems??

Sincerely glad you're alright

Suelleen is looking at herself in the mirror with her veil and dress thinking

pardon me is everbody here because if everybodys here i'd like to thank you all for coming to the wedding......

very weird, indeed. but hey, it DID indeed skip you, so no complaints, lol.

dammit sueleen...if you married sonofmia (my son) you would have been family! come on eileen! just say I do!!!

Oh my, Sunfish, I didn't think about key cards, etc. I guess you got home ok.

Thank goodness it didn't RAIN last night. That would have been my kind of luck. All those poor people having to sleep on the ground. I know I would have taken today off from work.

At least everything is starting to come back. Now I feel really sorry for the folks that won't get power till sometime this weekend.

It takes something like this to see how depended we are on modern conveniences. People screaming for their AC but did you ever stop to think about how people dressed 100 years ago? Women had to wear corsets and those long skirts. Men with the overcoats, etc. How did they cope with 90 degree and up weather?

I do understand that with all the concrete in the city does make it hotter. I can tell the difference in temperature from downtown Tampa to where I live. We’re a LOT cooler here than in the city.

Years before the boob tube and AC, people used to have front porches where they went after dinner to sit and cool down. They saw their friends and neighbors sitting on their porches and taking walks up and down the street and had the time to say "Hello". Now days, how many of us really even know our next door neighbor? Not when we’re to worried about missing “The Simpsons”.

With out power the computers won’t work and now days how much can we do without them? Might as well go home because you can’t get any work done. But how did they do it a scant 25 years ago?

I saw on the news that the gals in the shops that were open didn’t even know how to make change when people were buying flashlights and candles. They’re so used to the cash register telling them how much change to give. That’s sad.

The plays on Broadway could have gone on with candle/gas light–they had plays 100 years ago but wait, no, they need power to run the sound equipment and special effects. God forbid that someone would have to sing loud enough with out a mike to aid them.

Now there would be a novel idea–do something like “Silent Movie” only make it a play/musical that would depend only on what was available before technology hit Broadway.

It certainly gives you something to think about. Sorry for rambling.

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That would be fun! I was afraid that was what we would have to have done! The show went VERY well tonight! One more night.

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They can exchange there tickets to get ones for a different performance or they can get a refund.

there is an article about it at broadway.com. It's actually 'post dated ticketing', but same thing. :) You use th etickets from one night for another...
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Updated On: 8/15/03 at 11:23 PM

We in the North have managed O.K. No subway til Mon (maybe) & a big scare re the resevoir running dry. Funnily enough I ended up working on a tv series on Fri ( for some the show goes on REGARDLESS) & thus spent the day in an ice arena lovely & chill! I don't agree with them using the power for such frivolous use but from what I've heard it hasn't stopped other people from using the dryer & ac when the power gets back on! *sigh* the best & the worst!

Updated On: 8/16/03 at 09:00 AM

I remember '77, having the power go out while I'm in the shower! (Stupidly wonding why the water didn't shut off at the same time!) Going for a walk with my wife barefoot and walking over broken glass! (No cuts, thank God.)

My favorite "Broadway" story was that the cast of Beatlemania was told to try and keep the audience in the theatre so as to avoid adding to the chaos out on Times Square. So, in the emergency lights, they held a "Beatles" sing a long with the audience!

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Well, I am currently living in RI. Due to the fact that there are some cities bigger than RI, and because the little hamster spent all day on his wheel, we were spared of any power outages. While it was an opportunity to thank our lucky stars, it was also an opportunity to reflect on how insignificant a state we really are.

But I've been slated since May to do two performances of two shows (one I wrote/directed/am acting in, another I'm just acting in) as part of an off-Broadway one-act festival. The first set was to be Friday and Saturday at 9 PM. That was the show I was simply acting in, however it had the misfortune of being written and directed by my ex, which put a slant on the whole thing (especially since we were dating up until recently and went through a terribly messy break-up. Oy). As of Thursday, we were still planning on going via Bonanza.

I went to the Bonanza terminal at 6 on Friday to get the early bus to NY. They told me the buses were cancelled up until 11 at the earliest, and they weren't sure about that. My director and my castmate were taking the 11 o'clock bus, so I figured it worked, took out a book and proceeded to wait. The director called, said that he was cancelling on the show and right after we hung up they announced buses were running to NY starting at 11. I called him back and he got pissy with me and said it was over and done with. Then he bailed on my play (which he was acting in). No surprise there as my mother and I had been discussing for weeks how we'd solve that problem when it happened. (Not if, when.)

So on the way home, my phone rings and it's my cast mate.

From here on the story becomes on par with Cradle Will Rock or Waiting For Guffman. Mauro (said cast mate) says that he'd rather go to NY and find out there that the show isn't happening tonight rather than give it all up now. Exactly my sentiments. So we made plans to meet at 1 to take the bus to NY

Were I actually telling you this story, you would have time to go outside, smoke a cigarette and come back before I am anywhere near done. So I shall try to hurry it up.

Mauro and I meet, have no idea where we're going to stay once we reach NY. Because the director cancelled our hotel reservations and hotels were either closed or booked up from others closing. My mother called AAA and had our suite at the Double Tree back. Then she didn't have it for some reason. So I have my mother on the phone, who was supposed to come to NY on Saturday anyway to do tech rehearsal for my show, and am filling her in on everything as it goes. She goes through AAA to get us a hotel room. Said hotel room is in New Jersey. But it was only about 10 minutes away from the theatre, and we were just lucky to get one.

We get into NY and the power's restored and it's as though the outage never happened. Or at the very least it was yesterday's news. Albeit once I started talking to people I heard horror stories of being stuck for two hours on an elevator and walking from 44th street to Queens. The festival schedule got screwed up because of the outage, however, so our show was moved from Friday and Saturday night to Saturday night and 11 o'clock this morning.

After a day of teching and running around Lincoln Center eating like pigs at Cafe Fiorello and Cafe Mozart and Don Giovanni's (and a post-performance dinner at the Westway Diner), we do the shows. Finally.

So that's about it. There's more, but I'm exhausted and have to get ready to go back to NY on Tuesday. I did get to watch the History International Channel, which was some cool stuff.

Anyway, that's my power outage story, as well as my personal proof that more drama goes on offstage than on.

What had me the most worried was what would happen if (due to a lack of A/C), the heat in Madame Tussaud's got too unbearable.

Updated On: 8/17/03 at 10:30 PM