bloody sherry

What is it with sherry and amateur theatre?

I Enjoy the theatre and the arts

I really enjoy drinking

I love a beer/red wine/port

I dont like cheap sherry (does any one out there like it - if so please feel free to contact me and you can come along to any of the shows and have my free sherry - sorry tickets to the show not included)

For us hardened theatre buffs - ahat about a nice single malt scotch - alright dreaming - how about a can of Emu Bitter - I'll even pay

The greatest irony this week was I was allowed a free sherry but that was the only alcohol served at the bar - what was even worse was that the actors on stage actually got to have a few beers whilst we were watching (no offence Dons Party was excellent) but this must be the only show where the actors can get pissed and the audience stays sober?

PS I am not an alcoholic - yet

here, here!

Sherry is awful - at least at Kalamunda (KADS) they have the option of a cheap Port which is at least drinkable.

Yes, I agree sherry and even "Invalid" port are poor substitutes to the real alcoholic thing, but..
Yes there is always a but - large or small.

The but is that unless you have an appropriate liquor license you can't serve good alcohol without selling it or serving it as a part of the ticket price you paid for.

How many of us ,in community theatre, want to pay an extra $ for the alcoholic drink we may or may not want to partake in.

Thank god tea and coffee and that ever grateful bikkie is not licensed by Liquor & Gaming.

Paying for drinks? Hell! There was a legendary stage manager a few years ago who brought the best out of the principal cast of a huge and very energetic stage musical...

He would have an esky of open Coke cans in the wings, and just before each principal actor walked onstage, he'd hand them a can. We'd have a swig and forge ahead.

In all the rushing around and "artistic concentration" it took a while for any of us to realise that each can was lightly spiked with bourbon, but by the second half of the show, we were all just tiddly enough to really be enjoying the show!

Luckily, it was a comedy, so the resulting extroverted behaviour fitted in nicely.

Totally against the rules, but we weren't going to snitch! God bless the tech crew.

Vagabond Theatre is putting on free pizza (courtesy of The Grapeskin Wine Bar, I believe) after the first performance of George Orwell's 1984 (Thursday night)... I reckon it'll be worth the admission price for all you can eat pizza!
You can get tickets for $10 by phoning Vagabond (check the What's on this week section at the bottom of the webpage).

Seeya there!

Free Pizza? Hmmm, that gives me an idea.

Hey Grant! How about we sell off the pizza left over at the end of Don's Party?

Roll up, roll up. Get your Don's Party souvenir pizza here!

P.

As the chef in the show, i thouroughly recommend my delicious cooking.

However,

As the actor who plays the deluded cook in the show I am firmly of the opinion that any one who wants to eat that pizza has a death wish. (This includes you Michael.)

linda

if the pizza is extremly old - i'll eat it is anyone is wanting to give me money to perform the stunt

I like a wee Cream Sherry on a chilly night, it warms the cockles of me 'art!

That is such a funky idea. I'd be into that if I wasn't such a fussy bastard.

Troy

The pizzas are made fresh every night by Linda's fair hands!

Pamela, changing the menu to pepperoni this week.

But they look sooo gooood when they come out of the oven! A real, working oven, I might add.

I'm not surprised Michael put in his order! Now if only I could find a pizza base he approves of.....

Pamela, stuck in the bio box with her muesli bars...

Why not get a bar license? The profits can be quite staggering and can often make a difference to a struggling theatre company. Of course I don't know how much they cost, but worth a thought.

Hi Linda

linda wrote:
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> Why not get a bar license? The profits can be quite staggering
> and can often make a difference to a struggling theatre
> company. Of course I don't know how much they cost, but
> worth a thought.

Great idea! And the licence isn't that expensive.

Except that, in the case of occasional liquor licences, there are two problems.

Firstly, the Liquor and Licensing mob place ridiculous restrictions on the number of occasional licences they will issue.

My understanding is that theatre companies must apply for an occasional licence for every evening they wish to open a bar. But incorporated associations can only apply for something silly like 3-4 licences per year!! With an occasional licence you can open a bar for 4 or 5 hours - we've tried explaining that while we're applying for a period from 7.30pm-11pm, the bar actually only operates for at most about 90 minutes each occasion hoping to squeeze an extra few licences, but to no avail

So you might be able to run an alcoholic bar only two nights every season - with all the attendant confusion, disappointment and left over booze.

Secondly, some venue managements actually prohibit you from running an alcoholic bar by refusing to sign occasional liquor licence papers. They've usually got good commercial reasons, but it doesn't make it easy.

This leaves the only option for an alcoholic bar to be allowing the venue management to run the bar themselves. In which case you say good bye entirely to any profits you might otherwise have made on a "soft" bar.

Sheesh!

:-/

At least at Don's Party you can get the smell of hops into your nostrils!

:-)

Cheers
Grant

PS. You can check out some discussion on this topic from three years ago: