Live Theatre SCs

[XCashier]

And yet Les Mis has one of the most positive Christian messages I can recall seeing. ...Some people just can't see beyond the obvious.

Absolutely. The message of redemption and the contrast between true Godliness and legalism is very clear. Yet, because the play shows prostitutes, drunks, thieves, con artists (you know, like in real life!) and has a little swearing, the holier-than-thous will have a conniption fit.

[Ttam]

Absolutely. The message of redemption and the contrast between true Godliness and legalism is very clear. Yet, because the play shows prostitutes, drunks, thieves, con artists (you know, like in real life!) and has a little swearing, the holier-than-thous will have a conniption fit.

I know.... It really was ridiculous. I mean, for crying out loud. The whole "Lovely Ladies" thing is meant to show a dirty, distasteful, absolutely horrifying view of prostitution, but the show is about courage and redemption.

And I'm not really sure what irked me more.... That she fact she took issue with it for such thin reasons, or that she just stopped showing up. Seriously, not even a "I've decided that, due to my own personal views, I have decided I'd rather not be a part of this production." It was just us, all set up to rehearse looking around and asking ".....Wasn't there supposed to be someone here to play the piano today...?"

I know Lovely Ladies is garish, but I didn't think it warranted that sort of response. :\

It worked out in the end, though.... We'd used that pianist the year previous in Fiddler on the Roof (which she had no objections to, apparently...), and she wasn't very good. I mean, she could play the music fine, it was just impossible to get her to change tempo no matter how much you tried to speed it up or slow it down during your solo... which just made you end up looking like you couldn't keep beat. We ended up using a pianist who we'd used before and liked a lot, but had troubles getting ideal dates and pricing for.

[Igorina]

Last year, I was in a production of _A Christmas Carol_. It featured a children's chorus. The parents who did show up to look after their munchkins got roped into being backstage personnel, so they couldn't always watch their kids. Then there were the parents who would just drop their kids off and leave.

There were about 2 dozen kids all 10 years or younger. They were running amuck. *

I ended up babysitting them, or at least keeping them in line through fear.

It helped that I was playing the part of the Ghost of Christmas Future and tended to lurk in dark corners back stage. The kids never knew when I would come out of the shadows.


*This theater is old and at the time was under renovation. I didn't want the kidlings wandering off, getting hurt and having their parents sue, or some such.