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!

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.

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...

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.

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.

 I was given a black teddy bear, dressed out in kilt, sporan & bagpipes. In my tartan [Stewart Royal]. A silk screened black T shirt & pair of breifs [jocks]. With Brigadoon & 'It's disapearing' on the jocks.

I didn't want to upsetthem by mentioning the Black bears are given to mark a tradgic event [like the Titanic- Styfe Bears], so I prefered it to mean the Scottish tune 'The black bear' [which was a call to arms] But I cherish both of them, the bear is in his own glass display case & the jocks mounted in a frame on the wall. {wich did worry my wife about the question of the 'disapearing' bit  "how did they know?" [Still not sure what they were on about?] Also a picture frame of the show, with signatures of the cast & crew.

They had taken pictures during reherasals and then also got our production shots.

They made a very nice photo arrangement in a nice frame of pictures from the show. Each cast member signed somewhere on the matting.

To me, it was priceless and hangs with pride in my Office.

I will always treasure it. :)