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Wednesday, October 15th: We started today with a 177 mile drive(1616 total miles) to our hotel in Coral Springs, Florida. We had a 3:00pm load in, which made it a little difficult getting to the hotel, dropping off our stuff, and having lunch before we had to leave for the venue. When we got to the Coral Springs City Center, we realized that this would be our first problem venue. It was significantly smaller than our show can comfortably fit it and caused us to change how the show flows a bit. This is my favorite part of my job. Caroline and I talked about all the issues we might have and how to fix them so that the show runs as smoothly as possible. We knew that there would need to be a spacing rehearsal before the first show to make sure nobody would be pushed off the front of the stage! Load in finished without too much trouble and on the way home we stopped at a Subway to get dinner. We all walked in and they started making Rudy’s food before telling us that they could only take cash. We were a little pissed they didn’t say something at first, but we turned around and went over to the CVS to get cash. When I got back to the Subway the guy behind the counter obviously didn’t care much about making my pizza. He just piled the toppings on and then pushed them all off when he sliced it into 4 pieces. I was really annoyed! Talk about bad customer service! That night, Dave, Lindsay, Eric and Rudy came over to my room to watch the last presidential debate.
Thursday, October 16th: Today is when all the fun begins! We had a 10:00am(10) and 11:45am(11) shows which both went very well. Just minutes before the second show, we were told that we’d have a person doing American Sign Language for the show. This is one of the questions that I ask when I advance the show and this venue said that we would not have one. The woman who was the signer was very mean about needing a chair and a light on her and ear plugs(since she’s be sitting right in front of the speakers!) Eric and Caroline rushed around getting her accommodated(except for the ear plugs) and had everything ready by the time the show started. After the shows, we loaded out the show and immediately hopped on the road to drive to 64 miles(1680 total miles) to Jupiter, Florida. Eric and I took the truck and drove right to the venue, stopping briefly to pick up some sandwiches. We got to the venue just minutes before load in was suppose to start and had only enough time to eat half of our sandwiches. Luckily, the Technical Director at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre was also the flyman for our shows in Coral Springs! He had driven up as well after the load out at the City Center. It was good to have another person familiar with the show because, again, the theater was a little too small for our show! We loaded the show in and finished around 10:00pm. It was the first of many days where we have shows, a load out, a drive and a load in all in one day. It was a solid 14 hours of work!
Friday, October 17th: We had three shows today: 9:30am(12), 1:00pm(13), and 7:00pm(14). The first show was packed and was a really good audience. We had a tech meeting in between the first and second shows. The second show only had 32 people in the audience because one of the schools pulled out at the last second. It was a little disappointing but everyone put on a good show anyways! After the show, Jill and I stuck around to do some paint touch ups and carpentry fixes. The last show of the day was also really small, around 20 people. After strike, we went back to the hotel and some people got in the hot tub for a bit to relax. It was a good way to end the week.
Thursday, October 16th: Today is when all the fun begins! We had a 10:00am(10) and 11:45am(11) shows which both went very well. Just minutes before the second show, we were told that we’d have a person doing American Sign Language for the show. This is one of the questions that I ask when I advance the show and this venue said that we would not have one. The woman who was the signer was very mean about needing a chair and a light on her and ear plugs(since she’s be sitting right in front of the speakers!) Eric and Caroline rushed around getting her accommodated(except for the ear plugs) and had everything ready by the time the show started. After the shows, we loaded out the show and immediately hopped on the road to drive to 64 miles(1680 total miles) to Jupiter, Florida. Eric and I took the truck and drove right to the venue, stopping briefly to pick up some sandwiches. We got to the venue just minutes before load in was suppose to start and had only enough time to eat half of our sandwiches. Luckily, the Technical Director at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre was also the flyman for our shows in Coral Springs! He had driven up as well after the load out at the City Center. It was good to have another person familiar with the show because, again, the theater was a little too small for our show! We loaded the show in and finished around 10:00pm. It was the first of many days where we have shows, a load out, a drive and a load in all in one day. It was a solid 14 hours of work!
Friday, October 17th: We had three shows today: 9:30am(12), 1:00pm(13), and 7:00pm(14). The first show was packed and was a really good audience. We had a tech meeting in between the first and second shows. The second show only had 32 people in the audience because one of the schools pulled out at the last second. It was a little disappointing but everyone put on a good show anyways! After the show, Jill and I stuck around to do some paint touch ups and carpentry fixes. The last show of the day was also really small, around 20 people. After strike, we went back to the hotel and some people got in the hot tub for a bit to relax. It was a good way to end the week.
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