Life of a Theatre Techie

Posts on the ups and downs of a school theatre techie (:

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Not just actors are theater kids ♥️ A shout out to the rest of the team!

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Not just actors are

theater kids ♥️ A shout out to

the rest of the team!

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*blows a kiss under the stage* for the pit orchestra

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*blows a kiss behind the stage* for the run crew

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Stage Management in one day

Calling one cue wrong:

5 minutes later, after calling a difficult transition:

[lifeofatheatretechie]

theatre people as john mulaney quotes

Actors: You have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair.

Director: In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

Sound techs: The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

Light techs: No one knows what you're talking about, you idiot!

Stage manager: You ever have those days where something happens and you're like... whatever, this may as well happen?

Assistant stage manager: I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion.

Stage crew: I am very small, and I have no money. You can imagine the kind of stress I'm under.

Set builders: This is an on-fire garbage can. ...Could be a nursery.

Props department: Because it's the one thing you can't replace.

Costume department: Hi, I'm very gay, and I'd like a few dollars.

Makeup people: I don't look older. I just look worse.

Publicity team: You know how you lie to your parents?

Budget board: Eat ass, suck a dick, and sell drugs.

Audience: I'm really sorry about last night, it's just that I'm mean and loud.

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every place in the theater is a good place for a nap if you’ve been working there long enough

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they teach theatre kids how to project their voices but they don’t teach em how to shuT THE FUCK UP

[stagemanagerssaygo]

At intermission, a patron corners you to tell you that the sound is too loud

So you have to use your eyes to ask a passing usher for help.

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The many scars, scratches, cuts, bruises, nicks, twisted ankles, fractures. That you show off to other Techies. My SM has a scar from every show she has run, she is very proud and happily shows them off

Submitted by Thom

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opinion on cats?

They’re assholes, but big fan

(Big fan of the musical too)

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But resulted in an Up: When your cast bursts into an impromptu show while waiting out in the cold

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My school was doing Jekyll and Hyde for our Fall play. I got assigned the task of being under a platform on the stage to run the fog machines. Being underneath meant i couldn’t get out without bumping the whole platform. The whole show I laid there with my 3 fog machines and constantly ran them. Durning a tech run through I had to run the fog over and over because of actors missing cues and lights having to be set. The director still wanted the fog to be going “So we can see the lights effect on the fog” we run fog and lights for 2 hours until I passed out. The other techies ran and pulled me out, the emergency workers were called, and on waking up people were yelling and like wake up wake up and stuff like that and I in my half passed out state yelled “Quiet Please” expecting a thank you quiet.

In the end, Rehearsal was cut for the day (we had 20 minutes left) and I went to the hospital where i was put on a breathing machine and was released an hour later.

Story and Down Submitted by Thom

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when someone says something funny on headset and you see each other after the show

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The 5 Stages of Tech Week Sleep deprivation

1. Tiredness. Must…have…nap…

2. Hysterical Giggling.

3. Can’t. Stop. Crying.

4. Energetic Delirium

5. Utter Exhaustion. Excuse me while while I… just-

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every techie's masochism complex

me: ugh tech week is running me ragged. the actors are fucking up and our equipment is too old so like half of it barely works and we can't afford to get the stuff we need and i'm working wayyy too late i haven't slept in like 4 days and i'm surviving on coffee and there's still 3 weeks to go

friend: why don't you stop working tech then?

me: what and leave my WHOLE LIFE behind are you kidding me

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Do you ever just see a show and go: "Damn, did you see that cue? That was one sexy cue right there." Because I do all the time.