I'm good enough to put in more hours at the theatre working on a show than I do at home.  I'm responsible enough to build your set, have possession of the theatre Lowes (or other home improvment store) credit card.  But don't dare trust me with a key to a place that means so much to me?  Perhaps it isn't the theatre's loyalty in me that needs a closer look but my misplaced loyalty in a theatre that doesn't trust me with a key.

Keys! We have had whole meetings lasting for hours about building access. Our problem is that we rent space. One year the owners of the building restricted us to one key. Who gets the key? The director? The music director? The set builder? The costumer? It was a nightmare. We put the key under the plant pot. Now there is security for you. I had meltdown after the set builder left for the weekend with the key in her pocket. We got more keys, but I had to cry. The policy is  that at the end of a run all the keys get turned into the producer. They then pass them on to the next producer who passes them out to the appropriate people for that show. Yes, they are sometimes the same people.