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I've only been backstage once, but damn do you actors get loud! >.< Before productions, our cast gathers in the black box for some ritual I still can't fathom, even though I've been dragged into it before. It's called Energy Ball, and they rub their fists together and yell.
After productions, our theatre makes everyone strike, so there's a huge cathartic release, you know? Most people, me included, take long naps before continuing life. ^^
Sorry about the eye makeup; that has to suck. I've seen guys forget about their mustaches before, though, and that is the funniest thing in the world.

The whole month before opening night, I completely shut down. When I was in Fiddler on the Roof, I was taking Physical Science and Geometry and also having piano lessons. After the play, I looked back on my notes and couldn't remember a thing. I also couldn't play any of the peices in my book...I seemed to have just gone on auto-pilot.
Anywho...that probably doesn't belong here. sweatdrop Sorry!
Now for something that does: People get absolutely ornery before and during opening night. I've never been in a play where they haven't been.
And Mister, don't feel bad about forgetting to change make-up. During Fiddler I nearly went out as a woman during a time I was supposed to be a man. eek Luckily a very observant stage-hand pulled me back at the last minute and told my my kerchif was showing rather badly and I still needed a beard.