Tale as Old As Time

As I've said before, my essential problem with actual writing is that when I have a lot of interesting things to write about, I'm way too busy to sit down and write about it. When I have time, I have nothing interesting to write about. Currently, I have my job at the 5th Avenue in Development, my job as a dresser at the Village, and on top of that, I'm knitting like a fiend to finish all of the commissioned fingerless gloves before the show closes. Oh yes, and I'm trying to have a social life, both with the cast and crew of Beauty and the Beast and with my friends outside of the theatre.



In other words, my apartment is a mess, I'm running out of clean "blacks" (work clothes for backstage, for those unfamiliar with the lingo), I have no groceries, I'm behind in my favorite television show watching, and I'm not writing anything.



Speaking of blacks (Sorry, tasteless transition), have you heard? We have a brand new President! It's very exciting given that he's the first black/biracial Leader of the Free World. Even more exciting, he's not a total moron! There are a lot of expectations on his shoulders, but that is as it should be. We should be expecting a lot out of our President. Sure, he's going to disappoint us, but it can't be any worse than the eight years we spent under the reign of President Goofus. He's got a big job, since we're still fighting/occupying/whatever in Iraq and the economy is kind of sucking a lot. Lots of fixing to be done, but I think if anyone can do it, President Barak Obama can do it. This is the time for well-educated intellectual people to take charge.



The economic crisis thing is funny. Not ha-ha funny, odd funny, especially from the perspective of the arts. Lots of arts organizations are feeling the effects, and making cuts right and left, but from where I'm standing, I'm not feeling those cuts. Theatre is notorious for making cuts to save money all the time, and it's an almost daily struggle to make money in the arts. The artists, the crew, everybody at the bottom of the ladder, that's standard operating procedure. We're used to struggling to make ends meet. Perhaps as theatres announce their seasons next year, choosing to put up cheaper shows with smaller casts and technical challenges, our jobs will become scarcer, but again, we're used to lean seasons with very little work, regardless of what the economy is doing. Being in Development for a theatre does put an interesting spin on things for me, though. I am worried about my job a little, because I'm the lowest on the totem pole, but at the same time, at this point, my department's role in the theatre is more important that ever, trying to raise funds for the theatre. Which means lots of work for me to do, for now. All of this is merely musings, and I'm not saying I'm not worried, but I'll deal with all of this when I need to. Worse comes to worse, I can always move back into the parent's house.

Final thoughts: Beauty and the Beast is closing this week, which I'm pretty sad about. I need the break desperately, but I'm going to miss working with this pretty incredible group of people. I'll work with almost all of them again, but it's always sad to lose the bonds that we've forged over the last three months (which actually feels like YEARS, given how long this show has been running). Plus, I don't have a show until Showboat, which isn't until May. I don't even know for sure if I have that. Not really looking forward to that long of a break.

Love, peace and dancing flatware.