This has actually been an okay day, sort of. Only one really annoying thing, and that thing was so outrageous as to be laughable, when an agent (a complete - forgive my language - ASShole) of one of our Brain cast members sent Equity a copy of a private e-mail volley with me, in which I'd responded to a thoroughly obnoxious e-mail and told him how much this show had cost me to produce. Since the number I quoted, really in anger at him, was way above what is allowed by Equity to be spent on the production, he thought he'd be cute and try to cause us trouble. I got a note from Equity saying they were instructing NYMF to hold our box-office monies until we showed proof that we spent what we were supposed to. Needless to say, I responded to this idiot from Equity immediately, asking her a) why she felt it necessary to go to NYMF first, based on a third party private correspondence without calling the general manager and asking US first, and b) I informed her in no uncertain terms that we spent exactly what we were supposed to and that we have a paper trail a mile long to back it up. I then informed her that when you factored in the actor and stage manager money, the rehearsal hall money, my living expenses for seven weeks, flights, my lodgings for seven weeks, the NYMF advance fee, NONE OF WHICH ARE PART OF THE PRODUCTION BUDGET, that the number I spouted off in anger to the agent adds up perfectly - you take all those numbers and add them to the allowable production budget and voila - it's the number I spouted. I told her I expected a response to my e-mail, and I copied NYMF (who were shocked by Equity's letter and totally understood my response to it). Furthermore, my GM has written her own accusatory letter to them and basically told them they will NOT be holding ANY monies of ours and that all they had to do was ask for our expense sheet. They will have that tomorrow. Meanwhile, I'm going to do whatever I can to cause this ASShole agent grief, including filing a formal complaint against him with Equity and NYMF.