The Schmooz Fest

As promised, the topic at hand today is the Schmooz Fest.  This event took place this past Sunday.  The basic gist of the event is that people who give money and serve on the board for the organization come to our residence and provide a meal.  The thing that sucks about it, is that they basically come for one reason....to meet actors from New York.  Star-struck locals!  So a conversation at the event might go something like this...

"Hi I'm [insert wealthy donor's name here].  And you are?"
"I'm "Maestro", the Music Director."
"Oh very nice to meet you. Any idea where the professional actors are sitting?"

Now you may think that I'm kidding...but I'm not!  I suppose that over that 4 years working here some of these people have gotten to know me and are actually quite complimenting of my work.  But the other staff members here (costumers, stage managers, technicians, designers, etc) are literally ignored at the event.  It kind of sucks.  So we've been brainstorming some options for next year.

Option 1- How about if they all sit in separate places and we get the opportunity to move around in a rotating manner and introduce ourselves.  Then when their conversation sucks or they say something rude can just get up and leave.

Option 2- We could just all come up with alias names and say that we're playing made up character names in each of the shows so that they think there are over 50 actors here.

Option 3- CANCEL THE DAMN EVENT!

Well I'm off to start working.  Have a great day everyone!

Farewell from the Mountains of Musical Madness.

CK