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A note to all stage managers:

Your paperwork should always, ALWAYS, be done in a way that can be handed off to a sub who doesn’t know your show.  It should be detailed and essentially idiot proof.  Your sub will be grateful and you won’t have to worry (as much) or answer 1,000,000 questions.

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Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

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Me after a work call when I forget to eat beforehand

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Ive been in tech all week and im so bored of it ive just started making memes

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Accurate

The difference between tech students and Musical Theatre students:

MTS: all cuddled up and very much paying attention to the movie and it’s plot

Techs: need to be otherwise occupied (for example on our phones), while also watching the movie cause we literally can’t focus on just one thing, and HAVE to be multitasking

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Kristin Chenoweth’s wig mic rig for Hairspray Live.

Source: Facebook

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My family: you do tech right? Can you fix my computer

Me: I do theatre tech. It's a different--

Family: cool so how do I open email?

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You ever wanted to punch an actor right in the teeth? Here goes

First time I was Sound Board Op for a community theatre show at my high school. Cast were building the set and asked if they could use our tools for some things. I said yes, but ask us first. I was in the middle of LX hang with the LD and went up to the booth to double check the magic sheet. We went to go back to the stage and there was three cast members taking my ladder to screw some things in. I went to talk to said cast members who just blew me off, indirectly saying that construction was more important than lights. Director came over and told me to let them finish before continuing my hang. Then less than an hour later, I went to start checking mic levels and there's no input coming through from the mics at all. Went down to check and the receivers had all been unplugged (giant power bar) to plug in a miter saw. Up to then I had always asked the director before addressing the cast, but I just stood at downstage centre, got everyone's attention and just fucken yelled about them touching tech without asking.