The show is over and it actually did very well financially. All the reciepts aren't in yet but I know we were under budget and we brought in more than we had planned to.

 

That said the director only got worse. He was always very nice to people so I suppose that's a positive note, but he hung out during every performance wandering around from backstage and then into the house, changing seats and wandering the aisles. Unfortunately I smelled alcohols on his breath during every performance.

 

Irritating things that occured were  that he made call time a half hour shorter so if the house opened at 7:30, he'd make call at 7:00 thinking in his mind that an hour is plenty of time. He even said that as an actor he'd show up 10 minutes til curtain if he could. of course he wasn't realizing that you can't do that when you've got 30 people in the cast.

 

He also had staggered call times. So if a character wasn't in the show until ACT II, their call time would be 9:00 for an 8:00 show. One character hadn't shown up at all during an afternoon matinee performance and no one knew he wasn't there since he didn't come when the actual call time was scheduled. We stalled for 25 minutes after intermission.

 

He would call everyone on stage four out of the six performances for notes or a pep talk. Keep in mind that call time was 7:00 and house was open by 7:30 at which all the lights go out except for dressing rooms. So people would arrive at 7:00, sign in, start getting make-up on and around 7:15 he'd yell for EVERYONE ON STAGE RIGHT NOW! And then not release people till the house opened. Everyone had to check their props in the dark.

 

The fact that he was even still giving notes and tweaking after the show had opened was ridiculous. I atributed it to him being slightly drunk.

 

Now today is the first board meeting after the run of the show and the director is scheduled to come in to talk about it. I'm a board member and also in the cast and I really hope he doens't ask me what I thought. I haven't had a chance to fully debrief the full board as to my concerns. I did send out an email letting htem know I have issues and concerns so they don't ask me what I thought in front of him, but I can't control what he's going to do.

 

I'll update when it's over