Having an issue with one of our cast members - she was booked to do a concert at Musical Theatre West - start time on Saturday was eight. All along she's been told they'll rehearse this week. Today that all changed. No rehearsals this week, new start times and not just one but two - at six-fifteen and seven-fifteen and rehearsal before. They're now putting her in a terrible position and she's asking us if she can run her stuff outside of the run-through - which I have never done and never will do - my stumble-through is the only chance I have to see how the structure and show order work and I occasionally get things wrong and adjust once I've heard and seen the show and I will not be denied that opportunity and I especially will not be denied it be some theater that doesn't give a crap about what position they put a performer in or anything else besides their self-serving promotional concert.
I'm on the cusp of replacing her because I resent this inconvenience so very much. My co-producer said who are we going to find to learn the three songs so quickly and I reminded her that this cast member doesn't know them yet or certainly didn't yesterday. We'll see how it plays out but I'm a little nauseated right now. She's known our schedule for three and a half weeks - if this sickening theater (she just did a show there and obviously wants to keep that door open and that I understand) changes everything at the last minute, that is NOT my problem and I loathe them for just assuming that WE have to work things out.
