Having Fun While Doing a Job
I haven’t done a play in a while, but recently a friend asked me to help run the lighting board for his one act play, which opens tonight.
My first reaction was, “Oh man, that’s going to eat me Friday social life for three weeks!” But then I realized, it might actually BE my Friday social life for three weeks. People come to the theater. All sorts of people. New people. People for me to meet.
And one other thing: Theater people tend to be healthy people. Actors are always “working on their bodies.” And even the techie sorts of people (I guess I’m a techie sort at the moment) tend to be in shape, just because working the stage demands so much physically–hauling lights, climbing ladders, fixing sets, etc.
I wasn’t surprised at all to see one of the actors in the show open her purse and pop some vital omega 3 vitamins. And let me tell, pretty much every actor I know, has been on a weight loss shake diet at some point in their life. It’s just the healthy way. Or maybe it’s the glamorous way. Or maybe, just slightly, it’s the superficial way. But it’s my way.
