Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Hi Sugar High
I feel like sugar has a greater effect on me than alcohol has on normal people. If you'd been at the party I was just at you'd probably agree.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Um...oops!
It all started with the simple task of polishing some of the set furniture. The crew guys took the Pledge and polished a podium and a small end table. That was it.
Unfortunately they polished these pieces while they were still onstage, and not all of the Pledge was contained only to the podium and table. Some of it got on the stage floor. The WOOD floor. Imagine how silky smooth your coffee table feels after you Pledge it. Now imagine how silky smooth the stage floor was. Uh oh.
So the task was to make the floor not deadly.
Plan A: Coke it.
To "Coke the floor" is to mop or wipe down the stage floor with Coca Cola. For shows involving a lot of dancing Coke is added to the mop water every day. It makes the floor a little sticky which is good because it isn't slippery. So we tried with the Coke. We put layer after layer of coke down on the slippery spot until our shoes were sticking to the floor, but when the show started the actors were sliding all over the place. With each exit we had another actor saying "the floor is really slippery out there."
Suddenly even places that hadn't been Pledged were slippery. We attribute this phenomenon to two things. 1 - it was being tracked around the stage on the actor's shoes, and 2 - when a cast gets it into their heads that there is a slick spot on the floor, suddenly the whole stage is an ice arena. It was in their heads. Great.
Plan B: Coke AND Iced Tea
We use powdered iced tea in the show and its sticky so we sprinkled some onto the stage and then spread it around with a Coke wash cloth. This was at intermission. The audience had no idea what was going on, they just saw us wiping down the floor then sliding around on it.
As soon as Act 2 started the actors were slipping all over the place again.
Plan C: Vinegar
Our Stage Manager Amanda looked it up online. What gets through Pledge? Vinegar. So when the show ended we mopped the whole stage with Vinegar water. It smelled awful. Either awful, or like Easter.
Plan D: Special Soap
The internet also mentioned a special soap. So we bought the soap and this morning before the show we mopped the whole stage with this soap. Wardrobe has also cleaned off all of the shoes. Hopefully this works. If actors start complaining about a slippery floor again so help me...
Unfortunately they polished these pieces while they were still onstage, and not all of the Pledge was contained only to the podium and table. Some of it got on the stage floor. The WOOD floor. Imagine how silky smooth your coffee table feels after you Pledge it. Now imagine how silky smooth the stage floor was. Uh oh.
So the task was to make the floor not deadly.
Plan A: Coke it.
To "Coke the floor" is to mop or wipe down the stage floor with Coca Cola. For shows involving a lot of dancing Coke is added to the mop water every day. It makes the floor a little sticky which is good because it isn't slippery. So we tried with the Coke. We put layer after layer of coke down on the slippery spot until our shoes were sticking to the floor, but when the show started the actors were sliding all over the place. With each exit we had another actor saying "the floor is really slippery out there."
Suddenly even places that hadn't been Pledged were slippery. We attribute this phenomenon to two things. 1 - it was being tracked around the stage on the actor's shoes, and 2 - when a cast gets it into their heads that there is a slick spot on the floor, suddenly the whole stage is an ice arena. It was in their heads. Great.
Plan B: Coke AND Iced Tea
We use powdered iced tea in the show and its sticky so we sprinkled some onto the stage and then spread it around with a Coke wash cloth. This was at intermission. The audience had no idea what was going on, they just saw us wiping down the floor then sliding around on it.
As soon as Act 2 started the actors were slipping all over the place again.
Plan C: Vinegar
Our Stage Manager Amanda looked it up online. What gets through Pledge? Vinegar. So when the show ended we mopped the whole stage with Vinegar water. It smelled awful. Either awful, or like Easter.
Plan D: Special Soap
The internet also mentioned a special soap. So we bought the soap and this morning before the show we mopped the whole stage with this soap. Wardrobe has also cleaned off all of the shoes. Hopefully this works. If actors start complaining about a slippery floor again so help me...
Sunday, March 7, 2010
My People
Am I unusually close to my family? I feel like everyone I work with knows about my sisters, Dad, and niece and nephew. Hardly anyone else shares much about their family, but they all seem interested when I talk about mine. Hmm.
One interesting conversation:
"Do you have a big family Lizzie?"
"4 girls, which isn't really big in Utah where 7 is common" (yes an exaggeration, oops)
"isn't 7 like...the goal? Ya I think it is, cause it's perfect or something." (not directed towards me)
"Actually, no. Stop spreading rumors about my people."
"Oh. I should read that Mormon book."
Being a minority is always interesting.
One interesting conversation:
"Do you have a big family Lizzie?"
"4 girls, which isn't really big in Utah where 7 is common" (yes an exaggeration, oops)
"isn't 7 like...the goal? Ya I think it is, cause it's perfect or something." (not directed towards me)
"Actually, no. Stop spreading rumors about my people."
"Oh. I should read that Mormon book."
Being a minority is always interesting.
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