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...where EVERYTHING seemed to go wrong?

The paint is the wrong color, the actors are not taking notes, the gaffers tape is late so you can't paint the floor, no one is showing up for work calls, your one gel short of what you need. Basically just plain EVERYTHING!

How do you get through it without jumping out a window? Cus... I'm about five minutes from doing just that.

The show I am producing, directing, and designing... the show I am spending about $500 dollars of my OWN money on... the show I need to producer to graduate from college... I am not signed up for class credits. They took me out of the class and I'm about to just have a breakdown.

Any suggestions on how to vent this stress somewhere I won't be ending my life?

Never had everything go wrong but the last production I helped out on had one serious problem. We painted the stage in the morning and half an hour before the show it was still wet... I had to get paper towels and scrub at the stage until it was dry... we just managed it but it was still slightly tacky and the actors had to tread very carefully...

I've had a show like that....I was stage manager...and it was just plain hell. While destroying a prop does sound like fun, at the time I literally walked onto the stage (about 45 minutes before house opened) and just screamed. It was really cool, as with the theater acoustics is became a mega-scream, and it totally released all my stress. very cathartic. smile

our opening night.
a MESS

okay
our musical was beauty and the beast
my very first show
(im a techie)
so much stuff went wrong!
cogsworths costume kept falling apart!
it was like an actual fat grandfather clock
very cool
it rested on her shoulders
psh heres a picture:

(their costumes were not complete here. the beast had like this stuff like glued to his face. he looked so beastly. its fun seeing friends in the play. we had loads of fun w/ this play)

well.
her windy thing fell off every show but ONE
we had like...5 shows?
and her mic box was clipped to the inside of her clock on her pants
the mic box fell off on stage
:O
im small so i had to climb under the clock and feel for her pants rim
D:
i most likely touched her butt many times
it was dark though!
i could not see a thing!
then this kid gave me his phone for light
the mic box was on and she ran out there just in time
i sorta became incharge of her costume problems from then on
i always put on her windy thing
i actually forgot what else went wrong
lol
that might be a good thing
haha

other stuff went wrong too other nights
our ninjas (ushers) didnt get the wolves in the auditorium in time
(they run through the audience)

the beast FORGOT HOW TO SING HIS SONG!!!
he was super bummed

and lumier (or however its spelled)
forgot his song too

yeah
we had more problems
oh
the napkins
XD
they totally messed up a song and were all crying after
so hilarious
im not going into detail
too embarrassing for them

but yeah.
problems
not fun.
touching sister's best friends butt.
not fun