Xander ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Real animals and real food do not belong on stage! Speaks the former propster.
The stage manager and propster in me agrees; however, the director in me doesn't always listen.
This director will not put cats on stage. Dogs, maybe. Cats, no. Cats Do Not Listen. They are worse (and more needy) than actors. Plus, they tend to talk back if you give them notes.
I think that no one is really planning to do anything with the cats in between except, like, put them in the props cabinet!
I'm trying to picture this. Several props people I've known would have thought this was the correct protocol, though.
PLEASE tell me that before they decided on this Craigslist wackiness, they made plans to take care of the cats for the next 15 or 20 YEARS? Or I'm'a have to come up there and break some heads....
(yeah, the "humorless" tag just won't close on this particular subject...)
Farewell, Opus: [link]
::sniff:: Opus has always been my hero--I still have my Preppy Opus that my high school best friend gave me-- a couple of different Christmas Opii, a Shower Opus and my very favorite Opus...
Crazy Love Opus keeping watch over Jack-Jack
F- JAR, C- CK, M- AD
F- Barrowman, F- Vartan, M- BB (Can't be no chuckin' with that trio.)
This director will not put cats on stage. Dogs, maybe. Cats, no. Cats Do Not Listen. They are worse (and more needy) than actors. Plus, they tend to talk back if you give them notes.
BWAH! So I guess you won't be considering Diary of Anne Frank?
Mr. Kitty might work, but they are getting 2 cats off of Craiglist if they get no volunteers, they need them by Friday, and I think that no one is really planning to do anything with the cats in between except, like, put them in the props cabinet!
HMOG.
Drop everything and watch A-Ha's "Take on Me" music video repurposed with new lyrics:
That was brilliant.
"Band montage!"
"Somebody's gonna get an ass full of pipe wrench!"
(yeah, the "humorless" tag just won't close on this particular subject...)
I'm with you on this one, amych. Any show I've ever worked that had animals in it had the animals "donated" by someone in the show or by someone closely related to the show.
I really was hoping they weren't going to be that stupid.
I do not want to watch the debates. I do not want to watch the debates.I do not want to watch the debates.I do not want to watch the debates.I do not want to watch the debates.
WHY ARE THEY ON.
OK, turning it off. Maybe. Sorta.
PLEASE tell me that before they decided on this Craigslist wackiness, they made plans to take care of the cats for the next 15 or 20 YEARS? Or I'm'a have to come up there and break some heads....
It is crazy! They have tried for 4 weeks to get shelters to "donate" cats that we could have an adoption event in the lobby, but they are understandably concerned that we wouldn't be taking care of the cats. Today they asked for my cat, but I said no... I ride the bus, I am not leaving her there and I can barely get her to sit in my lap. Also, she meows a lot, hates other cats, and there is a live rock band on stage, which I think would terrify her.
The props person doesn't want to do it, but the director and artistic director are insistent to the point where she can either quit or get the cats. I'm pretty sure that she is hoping that someone from the theatre donates a cat so she doesn't have to go the Craiglist route. I wrote a really long email against it-- I have a feeling I might end up with 2 more cats, though...