Term of the Day: Jersey Attitude

Jersey Attitude-- a stagehand with an aggressive, stubborn attitude.  "The contract propwoman was very difficult, so I hired a day worker with a Jersey Attitude, to make her life hell during production." A Jersey Attitude can be a very effective weapon.

Memorial Sandwich: RIP Ray Liotta

 RIP Ray Liotta--In 2004, the actor Ray Liotta was eating a sandwich offstage during rehearsals for a doomed straight play on Broadway. The infamous, crazy house prop woman, who I will call Sybill, verbally assaulted him, saying "Get your fucking sandwich off my stage." His co-star, the legendary Broadway actor Frank Langella, called the theater owners and said, "If I could not do my job tonight, there would be no show. She cannot do her job. Take care of her." Sybill was fired that night. She was handed her now-dated resignation letter. She had had an undated resignation letter in her work file after she had had a phantom on the payroll years before.

In the 15 years she was a house head, Sybill had an evil habit of torturing every contract person who came through her theater, while not working herself. She would attack and spread discord. The night she was fired, my phone blew up, with contract prop people calling in glee. Ding dong, the witch is dead. I hear she is still suing Local #1.

Ray Liotta died yesterday at the too young age of 67. He was famous for great menacing roles in "Goodfellas" and "Something Wild." Liotta was a great American actor of the menacing thug or gangster. RIP Ray Liotta, and thanks for getting rid of Sybill.

Term of the Day: white woman's tears

white woman's tears--the only tool used by a young, incompetent contract woman on a recently closed straight play on Broadway. "She doesn't have the skills to be a prop person, but she knows how to use white woman's tears when she gets backed into a corner. With all the Broadway lip service to diversity, the tears still work."  She's being mentored by the tech who dresses like an extra from "High Plains Drifter."

Expression of the Day: "If that shows goes under $200,000 again..."

"If that shows goes under $200,000 again, the theater owners are going to take it out to the alley and shoot it in the head."

Old Road Expression: "If you don't know who the asshole is..."

 "If you don't know who the asshole is, it's you!"