On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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The FootcrackerWhen I was 5, my kindergarten class put on a small version of The Nutcracker for Christmas. I got to be Clara.
I thought the boy who played the Nutcracker Prince was cute. I tried to flirt with him every time we were together. But this was a five-year-old's notion of flirting.
So, the big production comes around, parents are all crowded in watching proudly. In one scene we have to dance together. I intentionally stomp on his feet. Several times. The times when we have to lift our arms up and I twirl under, I bring his arm down as hard as I can.
Everyone laughs and I giggle to myself and the poor Nutcracker Prince hops around in pain.
So romantic. I still have the videotape.
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trintrin has jam for blood, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 13:11,
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