Monday, March 16, 2009

A Day in the Life...

My mom has been asking me to post something about my day to day routine so, here is a basic run down. However, all this will be changing next week as I am in rehearsals for a new touring show for young audiences. But for now.... I wake up get ready and walk to work arriving there at 8:15 a.m. I do preshow duties (reset props, sweep and mop stage, ect.) then go to the dressing room and get into costume to do two performances of "The Swiss Family Robinson" on week days the shows are at 9:30 and 11:30. Then I do post show duties and eat lunch quickly. For the next several hours we are assigned various tasks around the theater, including cleaning, running errands, working bar/concessions for shows, and painting or working in the shop. On Tuesdays after the 6:30 mainstage show we havea free improv performance after which we are usually dimissed lately it has been around 9:00- 9:30 because the show is shorter right now. On wednesdays we perform monolouges instead of improv, but we go home around the same time. Thursday through Sat. the shows are later so we don't do any performances after. Saturdays are our latest night b/c we have a show that starts at 9:00 p.m. so we usually get off around 11:00 p.m. Also on the weekends we come in at 9:00 a.m. instead of 8:00 b/c we have class in the mornings and show in the afternoon. On saturdays we do improv class and then go do Swiss Family at 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and then wprk mainstage afterwards. On sundays we have acting class and then two Swiss shows, but no mainstage show so it is usually an earlier night. That is unless we have strike... which we will have this sunday because Swiss is closing.... this means we will be working late.... very late. Good news for me is that I will get dismissed a little earlier than everyone else because once I begin touring I don't get mondays off anymore so we get released earlier. That is the basic run down of my days here. we try to get out sometimes... las tweek we went bowling, I scored 135 ! Anyways I am going to head to bed, but i will try and post again sooner!

2 comments:

  1. I didn't know you had a blog!!! But I am super glad I stumbled upon it!!! Looks like you are having a blast!! Miss you! Love, Tara

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  2. Thanks Tracy! What a busy life you lead. Sure do miss your face! Love Mom

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