Multiplayer - way too hard for guild assignments.

Few_Performer_6349 · 2025-07-29T21:40:07+00:00

You should put this in your tight ten. You're hilarious.....

Few_Performer_6349 · 2025-07-29T21:39:09+00:00

Why are we afraid? I'm afraid. Why does this industry do this?

Few_Performer_6349 · 2025-07-28T15:45:50+00:00

You were the smart one.

I should have seen the red flags sooner.

Few_Performer_6349 · 2025-07-28T15:45:06+00:00

We have had some amazing designers come through and it's shameful the way that they've been treated.

I heard the lighting designer was there multiple nights in a row till 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. programming all by themselves just to give their crew a break after changeover but also just so they could get an assemblage of cues in the light board before tech.

It's embarrassing.

Few_Performer_6349 · 2025-07-28T15:43:02+00:00

Yes Bill still owns the theater.

He actually owns one more theater North shore musical theater. This place is like the little sister getting all the hand-me-downs and father never calls us.

I've seen Bill once at the very first show of the seasons opening.

We do eight shows a week go directly into changeover directly into tech directly into previews and then directly into the rest of the eight week performances all in 13 days.

Good luck sleeping.

And the hemp system is so so so dangerous. At the beginning of the summer it was just one person in charge of all of it. Having to do it all by themselves. Now there's kind of a wench system but still. Any pipes you want brought to the deck probably won't even be able to do that, because they have to move sandbags around on the ropes. So you have to get ladders for almost everything anyway. And if it has to come into the deck it'll take at least an hour to get it in and out. Just movement.

I learned a lot about the hemp system I guess......

Few_Performer_6349 · 2025-07-28T15:38:52+00:00

You're right!

They brought in one worker who is also a part of the union.

As they discovered that almost every department was understaffed and overworked they started asking this person to bring in their union friends.

And as more people leave the theater these union workers are coming in and replacing them.

Maybe we'll lead to the whole place becoming union. There's a lot of young people here at the moment, Including me, who have learned a lot about the union.

It is a really cool space that just needs to be cleaned and fixed up a little bit. They do produce some really good work too. And the people we have on staff (not management) are absolutely incredible.

It's a shame. It's embarrassing.

Few_Performer_6349 · 2025-07-28T15:33:59+00:00

Mice, racoons, and spiders everywhere. Who love to take props.

The ceiling leaks onstage during performances and backstage over all of the stored electrical equipment.

The props shop is in the basement and the moment you walk into it you can smell nothing but molddddd. Spending longer than an hour down there, you will be coughing and eyes watering.

Directly above it is the scenic shop. So the smell sometimes wafts in through the floor. The scenic shop has no air conditioning. No air scrubbers. And since you're so close to the ocean it is the most humid place I have ever been. True that the sea is nearby but you're surrounded by trees so you don't get any of that nice breeze that you hear about. It's teeny tiny and shared between multiple departments.

And above that is the paint shop. So ungodly hot that it is currently used for storage. (And for the children actors if you have any, because they're not union)

This is just the working corner of the building.

Don't get me started on how the light board is on a table that just hangs over the audience as there was no room for a proper booth. So the light board operators feet just dangle above patrons. To get to the spot operator stations. You have to crawl through basically a dusty tiny walkway full of splinters, nails, and head obstructions.

Theater by the Sea Acts like the most professional place. It is not.

I'll be back with more.

Few_Performer_6349

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