What is a dresser?

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:47pm

My friend just got a job as a dressor on a show. What is a dressor?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:49pm

Didn't you say in an earlier thread that you were a regional theater producer? And you don't know what a dresser is?

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:51pm

I know, I know a bit slow. What is it? I could guess?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:51pm

He also didn't know the Equity minimum or what TDF was.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:51pm

It says it in the name...

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:52pm

Sorry not as "up" with things.......

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:53pm

Ask your friend the dresser.

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:54pm

boy you all are hard. Just thought I would ask. But nevermind. Sorry.

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:55pm

Geez!

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:56pm

Well, we are not being nasty, but when a 16 year-old student knows a lot more than a producer, we have problems.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:56pm

Sorry, if we're "hard" but what kind of "regional producer" -- i.e. the guy that pays the actors -- doesn't know what actors make?

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:57pm

good point, I guess I am not that versed....I should study before I join these boards.

[Eponine]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:57pm

Something to put your clothes in.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 9:57pm

We're not "hard" - just very, very confused.

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:00pm

Believe it or not I am actually an non working equity actor (it has been a while) the theatre I produce is not equity so I am not up on the latest.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:00pm

Well, you should probably do at least a little studying before you spend thousands of dollars producing a show.

[Matt C]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:01pm

Thanks for the advice, I will take you up on it.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:04pm

good point, I guess I am not that versed....I should study before I join these boards.

You should also study before being a regional producer.

Not being mean or anything, but these things are pretty basic.

Now go research what a dresser does and get back to us.

Updated On: 9/8/04 at 10:04 PM

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:07pm

Don't worry Undiscovered, I think we're all a little short-tempered because of all these new members with false identities.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:09pm

Seriously, Matt C, whoever you are - save some bandwidth for the rest of us.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:10pm

Equity actor? So I take it you missed that whole strike thing-y that almost happened a couple of months ago?

I have friends who have nothing to do with show business and have never read a theatre board in their lives who can quote the Equity minimum of the top of their head because the strike details were in the newspaper every single day for a month.

Equity actor? And you don't know the minimums? Or what a dresser is (how did you get an Equity card)? Or what the Theatre Development Fund is? And you're a PRODUCER, TOO?????

LOL

Updated On: 9/8/04 at 10:10 PM

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:18pm

I know, I know, it's way too easy, ..... but there's something fun about exposing someone who's just a bald-faced liar. I'm done now

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:20pm

*points and laughs, then feels sorry and gives Matt a hug*


But darling, if you're going to post this stuff on a Broadway thread, and claim you're a producer, you should know what you're talking about.

[badkarma719]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:40pm

Please do not make fun of him cause he doesnt know what a dresser is
I had an executive producer not know what an orchestra pit or a fly system was and thought that you used phone cable for sound systems

He was so stupid

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/8/04 at 10:41pm

I'll make fun of both of them! Please!

If you don't have an interdisciplinary view of the theatre--get out!