Family Children's Theater
310 North Main, Hutchinson, KS 67501
Monthly Melodrama
& Talent Shows first Friday and Saturday of each month. Next up:
"Is that your Phinal Ann, Sir?" October 6th & 7th
at 7:30
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You
Know You Work in Community Theater if…
- … your living room sofa
spends more time on stage than you do.
- … you have your own
secret family recipe for stage blood.
- … you've ever appeared on
stage wearing your own clothes.
- … you can find a prop in
the prop room that hasn't seen the light of day
in ten years, but you don't know where your own
vacuum cleaner is.
- … you've ever appeared in
or worked on a production of Love, Sex and
the IRS, or any other show written by Van
Zandt and Milmore.
- … you have a Frequent
Shopper Card at The Salvation Army.
- … you start buying your
work clothes at Goodwill so you can buy your
costumes at the mall.
- ... you've ever cleaned a
tuxedo with a magic marker.
- ... you've ever said,
"Don't worry - we'll just hot glue
it."
- … you've ever appeared on
stage in an outfit held together with hot glue.
- … you've ever seriously
considered not doing in the murder victim
because the gunshot might wake up the audience.
- … you name your son
Samuel and tell him that his middle name is in
honor the French side of the family.
- …you've ever appeared in
a show where tech week is devoted to getting the
running time under four and a half hours.
- ... your lighting director
has ever missed a cue because he was blinded by
the glare from the sea of bald heads in the
audience.
- … you've ever appeared on
stage in an English drawing room murder mystery
where half the cast spoke with southern accents.
- … you've ever called for
a line -- in front of an audience.
- … your children have ever
begged you not to buy them any more Happy Meals.
- … you think Neil Simon is
a misunderstood genius.
- … you've ever appeared in
a show where the cast outnumbered the audience.
- … you've ever gotten a
part because you were the only guy who showed up
for auditions.
- … the audience recognizes
you the minute you walk on stage because they
saw you taking out the trash before the show.
- … you've ever menaced
anyone with a gun held together with electrical
tape.
- … you've ever had to haul
a sofa off stage between scenes wearing a dinner
gown and high heels.
- … you've ever had to haul
a sofa off stage between scenes wearing a dinner
gown and high heels - and you're a guy.
- … you've ever played the
father of someone your father's age.
- … your kids know your
lines better than you do.
- … your kids SAY your
lines better than you do.
- … you get home from
rehearsal and have to go back to the theater
because you forgot your kids.
- … you've ever appeared in
a show where an actor leaned out through a
window without opening it first.
- … you've ever had to play
a drunk scene opposite someone who was really
drunk.
- … you've ever heard a
director say, "Try not to bump into the
furniture," and mean it.
- … you've ever appeared on
stage with people you're related to.
- … you've ever heard the
head of the set construction crew say,
"Just paint it black - no one will ever see
it."
- … your mother has ever
greeted you after a performance with the words
"Don't give up your day job."
- … you've ever appeared in
a show featuring a flushing toilet sound effect.
- … the set designer has
ever told you not to walk on the left half of
the stage because the floor's still wet -- five
minutes before curtain.
- … you've ever been told
your director has no eyebrows because he handled
special effects for the last show.
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