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A packed Tuesday
Jun. 7th, 2006 09:24 amMonday night, I whipped through the rest of the C1 list for that class, then the rest of the Basic list for the new dancers, and ended at 8 so we could throw together a routine for the Pride performance. We worked on a couple of quick singers until about 9:30, then Scott taught me a new line dance "Dance Ranch Romp" that I'll teach on Thursday for C/W lessons.
Danny, being the wonderful techie type he is, was able to put the 4 .wav files for music on a CD after I got home, and made an extra CD just in case...I had to gear the music to what I thought would work for performance. "Celebration," "Whoop Square It Is," "Over the Rainbow," and "What You Do To Me" should be crowd pleasers for what we're doing with them. 'Venus and Mars' is the only specialty figure I had to teach, but they got it...
Most of Tuesday at work was spent prepping for "Stomp" that opened last night at the theatre, putting out small fires staffers and the ticket office were having, and getting my head in gear for the show. About 3:30, I realized I hadn't been sent the nightly box office report template, and the two people that could have sent it from Salt Lake City were both on vacation! I left desperate messages, hustled to put one together myself, hoping it was correct, then left work at 4:30 to head home to do MORE work for square dancing.
I whipped together the choreo and tech notes on paper for our Friday night performance, since I had made it up on the fly on Monday night, having to gear it to whatever 8 people volunteered to perform for Pride. Unfortunately, one of the gent dancers is a very weak new dancer, so the choreo was in turn, very light.
As soon as I had finished printing out the copies of the tech notes, Danny came home to pick up his voter registration card. Since I was just about to head over to the polls to do the same, we went together, and were back home in 15 minutes! No lines at all, which is a little sad.
This left us with time for me to fire up the grill and cook some sausages. A nice little hot dog and bean dinner, with the rest of Sunday's hummus finished off and I was ready for a nap...but instead...
I headed to the Pride performers meeting at 7, but Alan had given me the wrong location. After getting to the Pride office right 'on time,' I found the meeting was actually at the fairgrounds under the tent were were going to perform. Rushed there, and gave the stage manager the CD, went over the tech notes with her, got our free passes and headed to work. Alan met me there, having also gone to the wrong place first, and mentioned that Kent would be willing to dance if we needed him....grrr! He could have stepped up on Monday and I wouldn't have had to deal with the weak dancer!
Rushed over to work and got there about 35 minutes after curtain. It was calm and quiet mercifully, except for the cacaphony of the performers in "Stomp" from the house monitors. Set up my computer in the conference room and checked out how closing was going for ticketing.
Nothing went right with the box office settlement. Slow reports from the ticket office, some of them having to be redone (the regular ticket manager had a heart attack 2 months ago and isn't available). Then I had to noodle a lot with the template to correct what eventually got sent to me from SLC...I ditched mine. Then I couldn't PRINT the damn reports I needed and had to email them and retrieve them from someone else's computer...that I'll have to deal with since I have to do this 7 more times during the run.
Getting home just after 10, Danny had two messages for me, one from Joey, the SLC settler who was checking in just back from vacation, and a square dancer looking for Joey. Coincidentally, it was TWO different Joeys that were involved...what are the odds...
Hope Wednesday is calmer!
Danny, being the wonderful techie type he is, was able to put the 4 .wav files for music on a CD after I got home, and made an extra CD just in case...I had to gear the music to what I thought would work for performance. "Celebration," "Whoop Square It Is," "Over the Rainbow," and "What You Do To Me" should be crowd pleasers for what we're doing with them. 'Venus and Mars' is the only specialty figure I had to teach, but they got it...
Most of Tuesday at work was spent prepping for "Stomp" that opened last night at the theatre, putting out small fires staffers and the ticket office were having, and getting my head in gear for the show. About 3:30, I realized I hadn't been sent the nightly box office report template, and the two people that could have sent it from Salt Lake City were both on vacation! I left desperate messages, hustled to put one together myself, hoping it was correct, then left work at 4:30 to head home to do MORE work for square dancing.
I whipped together the choreo and tech notes on paper for our Friday night performance, since I had made it up on the fly on Monday night, having to gear it to whatever 8 people volunteered to perform for Pride. Unfortunately, one of the gent dancers is a very weak new dancer, so the choreo was in turn, very light.
As soon as I had finished printing out the copies of the tech notes, Danny came home to pick up his voter registration card. Since I was just about to head over to the polls to do the same, we went together, and were back home in 15 minutes! No lines at all, which is a little sad.
This left us with time for me to fire up the grill and cook some sausages. A nice little hot dog and bean dinner, with the rest of Sunday's hummus finished off and I was ready for a nap...but instead...
I headed to the Pride performers meeting at 7, but Alan had given me the wrong location. After getting to the Pride office right 'on time,' I found the meeting was actually at the fairgrounds under the tent were were going to perform. Rushed there, and gave the stage manager the CD, went over the tech notes with her, got our free passes and headed to work. Alan met me there, having also gone to the wrong place first, and mentioned that Kent would be willing to dance if we needed him....grrr! He could have stepped up on Monday and I wouldn't have had to deal with the weak dancer!
Rushed over to work and got there about 35 minutes after curtain. It was calm and quiet mercifully, except for the cacaphony of the performers in "Stomp" from the house monitors. Set up my computer in the conference room and checked out how closing was going for ticketing.
Nothing went right with the box office settlement. Slow reports from the ticket office, some of them having to be redone (the regular ticket manager had a heart attack 2 months ago and isn't available). Then I had to noodle a lot with the template to correct what eventually got sent to me from SLC...I ditched mine. Then I couldn't PRINT the damn reports I needed and had to email them and retrieve them from someone else's computer...that I'll have to deal with since I have to do this 7 more times during the run.
Getting home just after 10, Danny had two messages for me, one from Joey, the SLC settler who was checking in just back from vacation, and a square dancer looking for Joey. Coincidentally, it was TWO different Joeys that were involved...what are the odds...
Hope Wednesday is calmer!
