wow

so, i've been the go-to girl for these one acts at the college. well, funny thing, our stage manager got stuck in the bay area today, and i was the only one in a position to be able to fill his job for him. Basically, for those unversed in the world of technical theater, the stage manager is like a conductor for the folks controlling all the different aspects of technical lights. A stage manager (sm) coordinates the timing of the lights, sounds, and, in my case, projector slides. The show ran smoothly (thank God the plays are absurdist, since any screw-ups are easily covered up), and whenever i messed up a cue (which thankfully wasn't often), my underlings knew the cues and were able to cover for my mistakes. I had to run cues completely cold, aka i had to coordinate the show with very little idea of the timing of those cues and with me having seen the show a grand total of five times. That may seem like a lot, but our real sm saw the show hundreds of times. The assistant sm was very patronizing, though. Our lighting girl totally told him off (i love her so much right now!). sean was there for me, and i'm totally thankful for he and cyn for keeping me reasonably sane. :) Yay! I have total bragging rights now. Poor jerry (our sm), he must have been stressing out so much.