Top Ten Ways You Know You Are In Theatre (Stage Crew Edition)

Just for fun and inspired by getting to work crew at Essential Theatre's Summer Festival!

1) You know you are in theatre when you've used Google Image to compare the color of scotch with the concoction you've come up with in the hopes they are close.

2) You know you are in theatre when you and your coworkers have a heated discussion about how much marijuana a recent college graduate from an affluent family could afford (in regards to a prop, of course).

3) You know you are in theatre (and on stage crew), when you walk into the Board of Education in your work clothes and the staff nervously reach for their phones. (For those with no clue, ALL black...hair pulled back).

4) You know you are in theatre when the word "reset" gives you shudders. (Gotta love repertory theatre!)

5) You know you are in theatre when you have to discern between "normal" left and right...and stage right and stage left. (Please tell me I'm not the only one who gets confused!)

6) You know you are in theatre when "paging" the curtain has nothing to do with calling it's name. (It means "hold the curtain" Why don't we just ask someone to hold the curtain? I have no idea...)

7) You know you are in theatre when fixing a creaky door using Pledge furniture polish is a major accomplishment in your week.

8) You know you are in theatre when you have three days off and you go see a show on every one of them-wearing anything but black! You may also Facebook and/or Twitter about the fact you saw a show, and didn't wear black.

9) You know you are in theatre when it doesn't shock you that the green room isn't green at all.

10) You know you are in theatre when it would even occur to you to write a blog about ways you know you are involved in theatre.

BONUS:  You know you are in theatre when you threaten to open up a restaurant in Santa Fe and everyone around you finishes the lyrics.

Okay...your turn, comment in the section below! (Actors too...!!!)