Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: "PUFF 'N STUFF"

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JoeMc
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Topic: "PUFF 'N STUFF"
Posted: 3/10/08 at 10:15am

Picked this up on the Amdram.co.uk site;-

The whole Pubs is a stage & all therein are just the cast of players?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7285808.stm

Why do legislators have no idea of legislation &/or how to legislate? maybe they are only being paid appearance money?

[western] Gondawandaland
"Hear the light & see the sound!
TOI TOI CHOOKAS
{may you always play to a full house!}

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pdavis69
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Posted: 3/10/08 at 2:56pm

Absolutely brilliant!

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Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:10pm

Wouldn't work in Colorado. I heard this one on the news and thought it a bit ironic. In Colorado, smoking "plant materials packaged for smoking" is not permitted, not even in theater. That's right, you can't roll your own tea "cigarettes" for your show. Their argument, which is quite stupid, is that if they allow "real" smoking in plays, soon they will be drinking real booze (underage, too), and firing real handguns. Of course it's not as easy to replicate smoking as it is to use iced tea for alcohol or guns that fire blanks.

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Posted: 3/13/08 at 4:49am

We went thru all this pathetic palaver quite a few years ago, when the no smokeo ban came into place.

They all rabbited on about projected losses & what ever.

But now it has just became part of life.

We have a limited exemption for theatre, however as there is more theatre performed in rented venues owned by City Councils & the like, they all have a no smoking policy.

We advise the authors agent, but as yet we have not been resticted if we drop the smoke bit.

But with the real guns argument, I thought that most of the punters would be 'Carring' them anyway over there?

[western] Gondawandaland
"Hear the light & see the sound!
TOI TOI CHOOKAS
{may you always play to a full house!}

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JoeMc Celebrity Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832	Topic: "PUFF 'N STUFF" Posted: 3/10/08 at 10:15am
	Picked this up on the Amdram.co.uk site;- The whole Pubs is a stage & all therein are just the cast of players? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7285808.stm Why do legislators have no idea of legislation &/or how to legislate? maybe they are only being paid appearance money?
	[western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!}

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pdavis69 Celebrity Joined: 3/26/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 437	Posted: 3/10/08 at 2:56pm
	Absolutely brilliant!
	Patrick L. Davis Fort Findlay Playhouse
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whitebat Celebrity Joined: 8/05/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 137	Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:10pm
	Wouldn't work in Colorado. I heard this one on the news and thought it a bit ironic. In Colorado, smoking "plant materials packaged for smoking" is not permitted, not even in theater. That's right, you can't roll your own tea "cigarettes" for your show. Their argument, which is quite stupid, is that if they allow "real" smoking in plays, soon they will be drinking real booze (underage, too), and firing real handguns. Of course it's not as easy to replicate smoking as it is to use iced tea for alcohol or guns that fire blanks.
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JoeMc Celebrity Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832	Posted: 3/13/08 at 4:49am
	We went thru all this pathetic palaver quite a few years ago, when the no smokeo ban came into place. They all rabbited on about projected losses & what ever. But now it has just became part of life. We have a limited exemption for theatre, however as there is more theatre performed in rented venues owned by City Councils & the like, they all have a no smoking policy. We advise the authors agent, but as yet we have not been resticted if we drop the smoke bit. But with the real guns argument, I thought that most of the punters would be 'Carring' them anyway over there?
	[western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!}
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