Crazy P Updated

A lot of you have been asking me about "Crazy P" and I really appreciate that!  He's doing pretty well.  Recovering from whatever it is that was going on.  I've been calling him "The Tri-pod Dog" for the past week.  But he's beginning to favor the leg a lot less.  I'm continuing to monitor him and at this point we will wait to see if he recovers or if he tweaked something and it continues to be a problem.  He still will not jump up on my bed at this point....which is NOT normal for him!  Although, I must say that not having to find a corner of available bed because my 30 pound dog is hogging the whole things has been quite nice.  I guess the long and short of it is...I'm still worried about him (of course I am) but I think he is making a slow recovery.  

In other news the theater really has come together in the past few days.  It's been rough getting things turned back on.  When the fire happened the electricity to the building had to be shut off for safety measures.  Additionally, they had to turn off the sprinkler system once the fire was extinguished.  Once both of these things are done, proper authorities and crews have to come back in and rewire the systems and inspect them.  So we've been working all week on trying to get electricity turned on so that lights can be focused and aimed, microphones can be checked, vacuum cleaners can be run.  In the process, however we have lost a few things that we're accustomed to.

One of the things we lost has been a vital part of our performances.  We have a cue light system which is controlled by the stage manager in the booth at the back of the theater.  There are a series of colored lights back stage which he can turn on as a warning and then when the light goes out, that's the "go" sign.  Well electricians told us that be cause the system for those lights was run cable that is not safe (I don't know the specific terms) we are not able to use them.  BUMMER!  This means that all of our cues from back stage might be a bit off.  The lights were used for things as simple as starting the overture before the show.  I guess we'll have to work on another system.

Well I'm off to another day of rehearsal on a show that is coming along quite well.  Thanks again for all of your thoughts about "Crazy P".  

Happy Friday from the Mountains of Musical Madness.

CK