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huuviee
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Joined: 1/24/08 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
 Topic: Gift for DirectorPosted: 1/24/08 at 8:38pm |
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A friend of mine is the director for a small production in a few weeks (10 days, 3 actors). I'd like to get him a small gift, however because we live two hours away we won't be attending the performance until a few days before the end of the run.
I've never done this before, and was wondering what would be a good gift. Also, is it appropriate to bring something after the opening night?
Thanks for your help!
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JoeMc
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Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832 |
Posted: 1/25/08 at 1:57am |
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Why not, go for it huuvie!
If your thinking of flowers before the show, this is considered bad luck, to have fresh flowers backstage. Espcialy in the dressing or greenrooms before a performance.
Unless it is after the finarle on the last performance, fresh flowers are good luck, whrn they have been 'arf inched [pinched] from a graveyard.
It is always great to recieve a gift, especialy when it is apropiate to the theme of the show.
What is the production about &/or it's title?
The members here will be sure to have a few good suggestions.
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"Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
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tristanrobin
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Posted: 1/25/08 at 8:10am |
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"If your thinking of flowers before the show, this is considered bad luck, to have fresh flowers backstage."
Really? LOL I've never heard that before. I think that must an Aussie thing  |
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pdavis69
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Posted: 1/25/08 at 8:55am |
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In my experience flowers have always been a sign of respect and well recieved by both sexes.
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huuviee
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Joined: 1/24/08 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 1/25/08 at 5:15pm |
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Thanks for the suggestions! I've never heard that flowers are bad luck before a show either...
The show is Driving Miss Daisy, so we've decided on daisies and cookies or muffins. He's so busy he never gets real food...
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JoeMc
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Posted: 1/26/08 at 5:54am |
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With the real f;owers before the show, it is because they will normally wilt before the peformance is over.
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tristanrobin
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Posted: 1/27/08 at 9:01am |
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don't they have water down under?
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SherrieAnne
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Posted: 1/27/08 at 10:05am |
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I'd never heard of the flowers thing, either. In fact, with most of the companies I've worked with, the director presents flowers to the cast on opening night. (My NUNSENSE director presented each of the sisters with two dozen roses, each in a different color.) And sometimes leads with class present flowers to their opposite numbers, as well as to the chorus members - and sometimes to the crew. Of course, I suppose it COULD be bad luck, if someone turned out to be allergic...
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There's a little bit of diva in all of us. Some just have a larger helping than others.
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JoeMc
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Posted: 1/27/08 at 5:37pm |
Lack of water mat be the problem here - it hasn't rained here since October!
 However this one is down to the Pohm's!
I first heard of it back in the 50's, at a theatres in England.
It became a screaming match between performers of the Follie Bergere & the english stage door man. I was a call boy on the show & the british performers would never have fresh floors in the dressing rooms. But the French ladies became rather savage, when the door man would not allow the flowers into the dressing rooms, untill after the performance. I can't remember the outcome, except thier was blood, hair & flowers flying untill the first 'beginers call'. I thought we were going to have the anglo/french wars all over again. Which went on for the whole season. i was young enough not to be involved & couldn't understand half of what they said anyway. I bekieve it carried on at other venues they apeared at through out britain.
I believe the though is that the flowers were bad omen compared to the performance, that it wouldn't last & die by the finarle. Which was stupid being cut flowers, as they were dead anyway!
Like all of these stupidstitions.
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biggertigger
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Posted: 1/27/08 at 9:48pm |
Sorry to steer this thread elsewhere, but I wanted tell about our gift from the director. We did Nunsense 3 and the director gave us each a bottle of Blue Nun Wine. This show was done at the local middle school and the off stage lead into a class room which we used as a changing area/green room. Well, Sister Amnesia dropped her bottle and it smashed all over the floor making the room smell like blue nun wine. The poor kids had to sit threw class the next day with the smell of the wine.
Ok, thread back on track.
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