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I am honestly at my wit's end with this show.

Props keep disappearing and not turning up in the props cabinet or dressing rooms. Someone ate our food props (seriously, who does that?). Last night, it was totally ignored when David said that men who used swords had to check them out before shows with stage management and check them back in at the end of the night. We had people backstage tonight who had absolutely NOTHING to do with the production which is tacky and unprofessional. I hadn't moved up to the booth for the first act because my headset wasn't up there and I wasn't going to mess around with that shit, because if I had just started sticking plugs where they didn't belong I was going to break something and I knew it. But no. I was told "If [I was] going to go on to stage manage professionally, I should know how to run cable, etc." Like I'm just supposed to KNOW how to do this without someone showing me how. (It was nice to have Steven backing me up on that one, though.)

Right. Like you could pay me enough to put up with this shit for the next forty years.

I didn't want to, but we're going to start to charge actors to get their props back before the beginning of the next show. Maybe it'll be proper incentive to make sure that they handle the props themselves. Although I'm not completely sure of that strategy either, we've already made $1.25. (25 cents for regular props and 50 cents for swords since they are rentals and Not Ours.) Beyond yelling, I'm not sure what else I can do to get it through their skulls. And I don't want to yell. I want to be pleasant. And I shouldn't have to yell, they're all old enough to be responsible for their own props. But I'm at the end of a quickly fraying rope and I can feel myself ready to snap.

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I'm sorry your actors don't get it. Have you tried using the I'm Disappointed In You voice?

Someone ate our food props (seriously, who does that?)

0_o The last time I did that I was thirteen and spent the next day recovering from a very bad sugar cube hangover.

Never again. Oh no.

And that is not even taking into account the sheer horror of stage-food I learned from the white fuzzy ripestrawberriesripe I was selling in "Oliver."

And that is not even taking into account the sheer horror of stage-food I learned from the white fuzzy ripestrawberriesripe I was selling in "Oliver."

... Ew. XD

Pretty much. By the last show, I could swing them around in a full loop-de-loop shouting "RIPE, strawberries RIPE!" and they just sort of hung there in the basket, having fungus'd themselves onto it.

I have anger issues... can I just come and yell at your actors? I used to do stagehand stuff in HS, it's not like I'd be TOO out of place.

... eating food props is a whole new low.
And in general, there are so many student actors out there [I try not to be one, god I try] who just have no respect for showing up on time, knowing their stuff, and putting props away and NOT touching what isn't theirs.
You're almost at the end. <3

When I was working with Oklahoma! back in high school, someone ate half of our varnished pie food prop. People faceplanted for days after that one. -_- It seems lke people everywhere do not understand the Importance of Props.

<333. Hang in there, love.

Eating the food props? That's just wrong.

How about using the I'm Dissapointed At You tactic? I used to do that back in the army for the soldiers I was in charge of, and it worked wonderfully.

And...*hands chocoalte*. Because Lord, you need it.

We don't keep up enough anymore. :(. But I still love you.

And, FYI, I DIED laughing that someone ate your food props. I like to know that I really haven't seen it all.