Today I ....

didn't go to work.
It's a Sunday- so you may say '...well of COURSE you didn't go to work. Who works on a Sunday?'
The answer is- me. I go to ECC usually 6 days a week, sometimes 7 during show season.
I'm not saying this to make you feel pity for me (all 3 of you who might read this!) but more to explain what the life of an artist can be like. I could go to work 5 days a week and probably still do adequate work- but I would not be happy with that work.
Directing a musical is a HUGE task- you are ultimately responsible for everything on the stage.
I am not the set designer...but I am responsible for the set. I am not the lighting designer, but I am responsible for how the lighting looks. I have to make a million choices every day that determines how the show looks, feels, lives. I do the publicity for the show- for Seussical, this means coming up with the concepts for the posters, shooting the pictures, creating the posters, getting them printed, etc. I'm really lucky to have a great group of people to work with, but it is ultimately my responsibility to get it all put together. In order to teach classes (which is a HUGE part of my job, obviously and takes up a lot of my day), be prepared for rehearsal (which takes around an hour or so every day to prepare my plans for the evenings rehearsal), run rehearsal (which is around 3 hours per night), prepare for the next show (which starts one week after Seussical closes), get started on NEXT season (which is coming up faster than I want to think about and I am frantically looking for scripts to read/reading scripts), and do everything else that goes into running a theatre department, I have to go into work on the weekends.
Last night I went to a bar in town to celebrate the closing of Borgia Theatre Department's production of The Diviners. My lighting designer was there too. We spent 45 minutes talking about how to make a clover field appear during Seussical. It's impossible to get away from.
Tomorrow I'll start my 1 blog per day for the run of Seuss, but today I just wanted to say...I didn't go into work (but that doesn't mean i didn't think about my job!)