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No lights - Oh! ...It's a ....?

Sun, 1 Aug 1999, 09:04 pm
JoeMc1 post in thread
Ah! - found it ......lights on
come out come out, where ever you .......ahrr - never mind - alone at last.FAMOUS SAYINGS"Actors are props with dialogue" - Ramseur"Beat to fit, paint to match""If force doesn't work, you're not using enough""Done is best""An actor without tech's is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote.
A tech without actors is a person with marketable skills.""And on the first day the lord said. . . . .cue 1, GO! and there was light.""It's kind of fun to do the impossible."{Walter Elias Disney}"EVERY theatre company mirrors the muppet show, think about it.""John Wilkes Boothe should have shot an actor. . .""Love-it, Lock-it, Leave-it, Next. . . .""Let the actors finish it""I don't make mistakes, I have unintentional improvisations.""Hmmmm. What would a smart guy do?""Our techies practice safe sets and Tech's do it in the dark and on cue.""Work sucks. I'm going to the theatre.""Life's a stage and were constantly changing the scenery.""Extras are props that eat. . .""Umm, 'scuze me, your techies are showing. . ""If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets.""Hey, I forgot my cue sheet, oh well, I'll make it up.
I wonder if they'll notice?............". . . . I've got stagefright!"". . . . but where would they be without the stagecrew."". . . . where do the tech's go?""Tech's are those people least appreciated, most abused and the hardest working, in the entire history of theatre."Any one that walks on a drop or goes near the cyc - will evaporate, without further notice.

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