Whew! I checked the board before leaving for the show... and it was so nice to come back here after the show tonight.
And what a night it was!
Maybe it was the sunspot activity, maybe it was those proverbial gremlins, maybe it was the change in the weather... But about halfway through the first act, the whole lighting system started to act up. And act up it did! Lights were going on and off. The scrollers were a-scrolling away. Even from my position in the pit, underneath the stage, I could read the lights shifting on the conductor's face. Well, we made it through "How to Handle a Woman", and started the scene transition music. Then we stopped.
They brought the house lights up, and we were told that we were going to take at least a five minute pause. So, we did.
But while the lights were going crazy, we did have some fun in the pit. I started doing my John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever impression/dance - heck, we had the disco lights, now all we needed was a nice drum beat! And we all started wondering if we would hit the big OT - OverTime. -Which we (eventually) did.
We started the show back up, and the act finished all right, but a lot of the automation was off. They switched out light boards at intermission, and the second act went well... for the most part. There were some interesting moments in and out of the forest scene. I saw the lights go and off totally a few times, but we kept going. All in all, it was a good show. And our stage manager remained as cool as a cucumber throughout the whole ordeal(!!!!!).
Now I just want to know who had to make the phone calls to the production manager... We shall see what tomorrow's matinee will bring.
Well, it's late, and I still have some of my usual daily browsing and surfing to finish up. And I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm going to find myself at Macy's in the morning.... Hmmm....