Monday, November 23, 2009

ABC...

Out of Alabama! Into Baltimore! Next Week, Connecticut! At least we are going in alphabetical order.

Huntsville was a good city for us. The people were nice and somewhat intelligent. Most of the crew had at least a little bit of knowledge about what we were doing. It still boggles my mind how it is okay in this business to employ someone that has had zero training in the craft and just ignore the fact that the person has no particular skills that are useful to the show. I cannot think of many other business where a major client would come into an office and the office would let someone with no skills try and work with the major client. That is what we run into week after week. We are the major client that has limited time and resources to install a show into a theatre and we constantly get labor help that does not have a clue what we are doing. Huntsville was much better in this department that Montgomery. Montgomery is on the list of places that I have been that I will perfectly happy never returning to. I did not have a lot of time to explore the town of Huntsville (I spent so little time in my room that I did not even know I had a refrigerator until the last night I was there). The shows sold well there and the local crew was nice and fun to work with. The only downside is that there was a notice posted that Mamma Mia will be taking a 9 week layoff in mid July. They will be taking this time to negotiate and decide where the show is heading. I might be moving to New York sooner than I thought...

We had a 6:30am flight into Baltimore this morning. We arrived just before noon. I had the coolest cab driver I have had in awhile. He was this older Greek guy that knew just enough English to make awkward conversation. But at the end of the 20 minute ride, he told me that he could tell that I was mature and would make the right decisions in life. We hadn't even talked about life situations! He was like a Cabbie Fortune Cookie. I haven't had much time to explore Baltimore but I am looking forward to it. I am hoping to get at least one good photo shoot in so hopefully I can share some photos with you later this week!

Thanks For Reading...

1 comment:

  1. "He was like a Cabbie Fortune Cookie." - Best sentence in your blog thus far! Hahaha

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