Mold making for Evil Dead

Zombies!

Right now my housemate is working on Evil Dead The Musical, so I've been hyper-aware of all things zombie. Yesterday he spent the whole day making life-casts of the entire cast (he promises a youTube video, totally different than the one below). Attending the session were; the prop master, the set Designer/tech director , a prosthetic's designer, the prosthetic's designer's friend, the prosthetic designer's friend's wife, the Contra Costa Times reporter, the SF Chronicle reporter, the actors, various actor's girl friends and boyfreinds, and the set designer's dog. Zombies are fascinating. Why is that?

Waiting around... (an update)

At times the life of a theatrical is like a long anxious spring break with no money... yep it's called unemployment.  This past week I had cleared for a job that I thought would start right away on.  I attended the first rehearsal and was ready for the designer to tell me "ok lets start fittings on Saturday".  It's a short turn around, most designers are anxious to start right away.  Not so. The designer told me "I want to start fittings next Thursday" leaving me a week and a half that I could have been working off my debts.  

I am unemployed.

I am broke.

I am bored.

I had such a frenzy preparing for this week that everything is clean.  Everything is ready.  I even made myself a summer shirt... 

It's hard to be too upset about an unplanned "vacation" but without any money to do anything in addition to the fact that I had rejected work makes it rather lame.  

On Thursday I got a call to help out for emergency stitching on Friday and Saturday... Hallelujah! 

In a town...

Ok we didn't get the movie voice over guy to do our trailer... but my stage play has a trailer...
wacky!

check it out HERE!

Water water everywhere...

Tech cancelled tonight due to strep throat... sickness is a show stopper whenever there is kissing involved.  Thankfully the evening off allows me to get artsy things done that I hadn't expected to finish.  No time to blog at length... my long dinner is about over.  Hopefully everything will be back on track tomorrow.Above our kick-ass P.A. walks the deck while the producers read the lines and the Stage Manager runs cues with the board ops... can't waste the whole night.

Tech Week

(tek•week) n. Jargon 1. The week in which a theatrical production works with all technical elements and performers in the performance space.  2. a 40 to 80 hour work week where everybody ignores "labor laws" ; I haven't been able to sleep more than a few hours a day but I'm in Tech Week so it is expected.  3. The week in which friends and family of theatrical workers must accept the near to total absence of said theatrical ; I haven't seen my sister for a while, either she was abducted by aliens or she is in Tech Week.

--abbrv. Tech

--archaic. Hell week