Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:35:23 -0700
Subject: Re: PUPT: Favorite stoooopid things


Vagabond Marionettes... major memory there. They came to our mall in Calif. My
nieces and I stayed all day, watched every show from front and back, helped
them pack up and they drove us home. I thing the puppet bug had stung me!

Mary H. 

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:22:47 -0700 Mary Robinette Kowal
<mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com> wrote:

> 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
> >  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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> Kowal
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