Everyone Loves a Suprise!

While this saying might be true for the audience there is nothing I hate more than getting a suprise during the show.
Part of the reason we have rehearsals is so that everyone on stage knows what they're doing, and so that everyone back stage knows what they are doing.
There is no point in having light cues that you aren't going to bother using. This could have saved me 2 hours of rehearsal on my Thursday evening. And it also could have made the dances that you had planned to look gorgeous remain so.


Dance recitals and Plays do have one thing in common. It is incredibly inappropriate to shout out someones name when they come on stage. Not at the beginning of the performance, not in the middle and most certainly not at the end. You respectfully wait until after the show to congratulate them on a job well done. Tell me why every single audience for the past FIVE dance recitals thinks it's okay just to bellow out at the dancers.
Last weekend it actually caused such a distraction one of the dancers forgot thier moves and then didn't even both to play it off but instead covered her hands and ran off stage. At this point I had been through too many annoying rehearsals and angry directors telling them how to act and behave to feel any pity for her making an ass out of herself after the audience has made an ass out of itself

I've stopped watching these shows. I just do the light cues when they are called to me.

_Liz