“Teeth Needed” is the best email subject line ever. Maybe it’s a personal ad from someone with low standards. Or a very short list of job requirements (apparently there is an opening for a vampire somewhere). Snicker.
Actually, it’s from an email I got last year from the Bay Area Theatre Bums mailing list. Like many of my theater cohorts, I signed up to hear about auditions and ticket offers. I didn’t expect to be so entertained by the emails from folks seeking props and furniture for their shows.
The aforementioned email was from a San Mateo theater group that was putting on a play called “Tainted Justice” and needed a set of dentures for an exhibit in a trial scene. I wonder if they found them (and if they washed them before they gave them back).
Some of my other favorite subject lines: “Desperately Seeking Suit of Armor,” “SFFCT seeks a realistic bear costume and a ghostlight,” and “Wanted: Three Airline Seats.”
My heart went out to the poor director of a recent production of “Death of a Salesman” who needed not only a Formica-topped kitchen table, a vanity dressing table with mirror, and an antique tape recorder, but also a football helmet, a football, shoulder guards and pants -- from 1945-1950.
Anyone got a good story about a struggle to find a prop?
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