From: BFall <bfall-AT-toledolibrary.org>
Subject: RE: PUPT: Favorite stoooopid things
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:16:41 -0400


Tim:

Wow!  Had they constructed that thing just for you, or did everyone perform
up there?  I'm curious about what that "stage" really was!

Brid
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Giugni
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: 9/30/02 3:20 PM
Subject: PUPT: Favorite stoooopid things

Here's my fave.
Last show of the year.School. We've done over 230
shows. We are tired. Our show is exactly 10 X 10 X 10
in size, not counting the light poles or the
speakers.We walk in to the space with the principal.
He points to where we will be performing.

Odd, there is a huge square block (12 long x 10 wide x
11 high) in our performance area.

We are informed that the block is our stage. 
"We won't fit".
"You said you'll fit on a 10x10 space".
"Yes, but not 10 feet up in the air".
Principal will not hear us when we say it is dangerous
and that the kids will not be able to see. No amount
of coaxing will consol him. Ex-army.

My partner is fuming. I'm not too happy, but it's the
last show. We've got medical (and dental) and I think
that a lawsuit will prove that we were in the right to
say that the stage was dangerous if it kills any
children on its plummet to the ground.

We do the show. The stage shakes as if the entire
structure will fall.

Some how no one dies. We pack up. 
The principal, "See, I told you you would fit".
Partner one step away from killing this man (it's what
I prized in her, this open hostility). I see red and
just stop. Principal turns and goes. They get REALLY
bad marks in the touring journal.We go home.
The story becomes myth and stuff of legend.
Tim
In my Tears of Joy Days.
Next week: We are Pelted with Rocks at an Elementary
School.




--- Mary Robinette Kowal
<mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com> wrote:
> Oh let's veer off on a tangent.  How about favorite
> stupid things the
> contacts say.
> 
> For instance:
> We arrived at a school who's stage was too small to
> put our set up on.
> So we asked if we could set up at the opposite end
> of the room.  The
> contact agreed and then said, "Now, we normally have
> the children facing
> this way " she pointed to their stage, "Do you think
> it would be better
> if they faced the other way?"
> 
> Evy Berman wrote:
> > 
> > I think that my favorite objection to one of our
> shows was from
> > a mom wanting to book a birthday party. While
> pitching "Frog &
> > Jenny" (target audience - preschoolers thru age 8,
> perhaps the
> > most non-offensive show ever built but still
> stomachable by
> > adults) I told her that Jenny, bored with waiting
> for a fish at
> > her fishing hole, pretends that it is a magic
> fishing hole. The
> > kids then get to say the magic words with Jenny
> and help her
> > fish for what they wish for. The parent was
> concerned that it
> > would teach her kids that magic/dark arts was
> acceptable and did
> > not book the show. In her defense, it went against
> their
> > religion. In my defense, I didn't cut the magic
> fishing hole.
> > 
> > Oh, and incidentally, I also lost a booking once
> because the
> > parent thought that the concept of "Frog & Jenny"
> would be above
> > her three-year-old's head. Oh, how I pity that
> child. To think
> > that in high school she'll still be pinning notes
> to his chest
> > to remind him to return his library books. (MY mom
> only had to
> > do that until I was seven, but then I was a
> prodigy.)
> > 
> > -Evy
> > 
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