Matinee was completely sold out, so I had to stand.
The only thing wrong was when our leading lady's mic went out late in act two - apparently a battery got dislodged - how is anyone's guess - but she had to be sans mic for her big solo - she's a pro and projected, but it's her big moment and I was pretty upset about it because commons sense would dictate that a replacement mic and pack should always be there for an emergency. She has a costume change before her next scene and if they'd had it ready and had texted our backstage workers to have it standing by, they could have swapped it out. But no one thinks of these scenarios - but from here on in that is exactly what we're going to do.
We had a sub on trumpet, and like the sub reed player, I like her better than the real guy.
Then our musical director has thrown us a real bonafide curve ball, saying he has to miss the Friday show in two weeks. Say what? Never part of the deal and I certainly wouldn't trust a sub to come in and attempt to play this score cold. He swears he'll work with whomever it is but I'm not thrilled by the idea.
He's begging Doug to cancel the show and add a performance, but they're not set up to do that, to add, and they absolutely cannot cancel as they've already sold over a thousand bucks in tickets for that week.
