Dear Lord in Heaven, Howard be thy name.
Yesterday was the Day from HELL.....
ANNIE is sold out - people are incensed they can't get tickets....I spent the day sending out stories for the Beauty and the Beast auditions coming up Sunday & Monday....and calling to add SOLD OUT stencils to all the newspaper ads.
Got to the theatre early....three people were in line fuming because the box office person was on the phone.....I always take the phone off the hook and handle the in person folks....two of them had not received their season tickets in the mail.
They were all mad...so I looked them up and told them I would make them duplicate tickets....also said if the real tickets come, THROW AWAY THE DUPLICATES, which they won't and we'll have tickets on some night with more than one ticket for some seats....
The ticket person finally showed up and said two of those people had called her and that we should have looked in the front of the reservation box, because she had already made duplicate tickets for them.....KARNAK.
Then I had to redo the ensemble ending to I DON'T NEED ANYTHING BUT YOU....during the first scene....and almost missed my cue for Scene Two....and forgot to put on my shirt tie under my police uniform....
And then....well.....it was a hell of a day....
And that, teacher, is why I was absent yesterday.....