Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:22:47 -0700
Subject: Re: PUPT: Favorite stoooopid things


Strangely, I had the exact same thing happen when I toured with
Vagabond.  Gigantic platform that they built for us in the middle of the
gynasium.

Mary

Tim Giugni wrote:
> 
> 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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