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Justice C. Bigler

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Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« on: June 14, 2017, 08:18:07 PM »

What are your favorite ways to waste time during an excruciatingly long tech rehearsal where you have nothing to do but wait for the director to make art?  :'(


Some of mine:


Surf PSW and the DUC
Post pics of the rehearsal on FB
Finish reading the script
Go into preview and finish programming​ the rest of the show
Try to decipher the nonsensical gibberish that the lighting​ department is yammering about on coms
Catch a power nap
Work on paper work for the next show
Look for/apply for another job
Weigh the pros and cons of updating some kind of important piece of gear or software during the rehearsal
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2017, 09:45:00 PM »

Email, scheduling other gigs, Facebook, paperwork, processing bills....  wishing I was anywhere else.


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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2017, 11:20:59 PM »

Develop recipes for The Cannibal Kitchen Channel.
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2017, 01:13:11 AM »

Develop recipes for The Cannibal Kitchen Channel.
This goes along with another I thought about: design an unnecessarily complicated Rube Goldberg-like death machine into which to feed this production's scenic designer who thinks he's God's gift to theatre.
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2017, 05:13:23 AM »

Develop recipes for The Cannibal Kitchen Channel.

i thought of a competitive cooking show for such a channel
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2017, 05:28:36 AM »

i thought of a competitive cooking show for such a channel
Sort of "Survivor" meets Chef Ramsay?

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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2017, 06:33:10 AM »

At my age? One last check, then nap.
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2017, 06:59:26 AM »

Edit Wikipedia
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2017, 09:42:22 AM »

At my age? One last check, then nap.
One last blood pressure check was that?
Toodleoo!
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2017, 01:42:55 PM »

Sort of "Survivor" meets Chef Ramsay?

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more like competitive dinner party series
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2017, 03:33:50 PM »

Write some Haiku poetry....

Never read the play
before you see it performed.
There’s too much drama.

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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2017, 05:03:19 PM »

you could listen to this wasted song while wasting time. What a waist !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-PwSwIRtGQ
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2017, 06:14:36 PM »

Tonight's rehearsal: 3 1/2 hours long. A full orchestra dress and THEN an hour of piano tech.  :o 

Did I mention that it's a youth opera with 50 kids between 8 and 16?   :-\

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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2017, 06:43:48 PM »

Did I mention that it's a youth opera with 50 kids between 8 and 16?   :-\

"Play enjoyed by all"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQSC5UVwsg
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2017, 08:08:34 PM »

Write some Haiku poetry....

Never read the play
before you see it performed.
There’s too much drama.
This might be the most brilliant thing I've ever seen anywhere on any of the forums. LOL!
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2017, 08:17:25 AM »

Tonight's rehearsal: 3 1/2 hours long. A full orchestra dress and THEN an hour of piano tech.  :o 

Did I mention that it's a youth opera with 50 kids between 8 and 16?   :-\



OK, so now I see a picture of album covers and rolling papers in my head.
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2017, 01:33:48 PM »

I don't see:

Downloading datasheets for all the gear in eyeshot
Practicing label tape penmanship
Frequency training with an ear bud in one ear

But poetry, recipes and scoping better employment sound like self improvement exercises as well.   
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2017, 03:04:09 PM »

Whatever you do, don't mess with a Fidget Spinner!!!
WARNING: You really don't want to read this.
http://www.unitednews.org/calgary-man-slices-off-penis-attaching-razor-blade-fidget-spinner/
 
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2017, 07:21:01 PM »

Tonight's rehearsal: 3 1/2 hours long. A full orchestra dress and THEN an hour of piano tech.  :o 

Did I mention that it's a youth opera with 50 kids between 8 and 16?   :-\
Years ago, when I was involved in musical theater, the dancers noticed that I was at all the rehearsals they were. At the end of the run they presented me with a t-shirt, black of course, that said, "I can't... I have rehearsal!"
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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2017, 03:28:50 AM »

Just spent 3 weeks monitoring 58 channels of wireless and submixing a choir under the stage of an outdoor opera.

Brought a case full of multicore cables, LK37 connectors and a crimp tool with me.

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Re: Favorite way to waste time during rehearsal
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2017, 07:44:35 AM »

Just spent 3 weeks monitoring 58 channels of wireless and submixing a choir under the stage of an outdoor opera.

Brought a case full of multicore cables, LK37 connectors and a crimp tool with me.

You win.
Most tedious and practical use of your time.
Let me know your next gig. I've got an old board I want to recap......... ;D
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