I was rooting for the yellow night! It was awesome. And, the first half of the show was all competitions of skill! And every time a knight won, he recieved carnations from the princess and he got to throw them to his nobles in the audience. My knight won and he kissed the carnation, aimed it to me, and it bounced out of my hands and into the row in front of me! That was highly embarresing because all the other nobles in my section of seats saw me drop it... 

So, then this oracle comes out and says "My king, I had a vision... One of your knights is a traitor with the blood of your brother upon his hand..." (not exactly like that, but close enough)

Anyway, so in order to hopefully kill off the traitor, the master of the games decided that the joust should be to the death! And the audience (nobles) all liked that idea! So, the knights batteled it out to the death! MY KNIGHT WON!!! So, my entire section was doing some massive cheering when the master of the games STABS HIM IN THE STOMACH!!! Our knight had won! The master of the games was the traitor. No wonder that he wanted the joust to be to the death because then he doesn't have to fight every knight, only one! So, then the first knight comes back on. Turns out he hadn't died only been hurt. So he comes back out and fights the evil traitor. He captures the traitor! Then tie him up, one rope on each arm and one squire holding each rope. Then the executioner comes out. He brings a whip with him... Now the show is choreographed so nothing happened. But with the combination of the mist (making it hard to see that nothing is happening) and the fact that every time the whip cracked the traitor jerked between the ropes that bound him... It seemed pretty realistic...

Anywho, it was INCREDIBLE!!!!

I really hope I get to go again! Huzzah!

Ok, let me splain!

Techies = Stage hands, lighting crew, prop crew, costume crew, set design, sound people, aka all the backstage people who are NEEDED to put on a successful theatrical production. They are NEEDED in all theatrical productions including, Broadway, Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, Community, High School, College, Ren-Faire, etc... Theatres. Let me stress that point. THEY ARE NEEDED!!!!!!

Now there are a bunch of Stupid Heads who decided that "They aren't really that important! Let's not pay them enough!" Aren't those people STUPID-HEADS!!!

Now the techies went on strike until they get what they need as they should because they are NEEDED!!!! Only problem is that of the 35 shows that play on Broadway, 27 have now been shut down. In other words, thanks to the STUPID-HEADS who decided that Techies aren't important, alot of people who depend on the tourism that the theatre brings are going to lose their income. And the STUPID-HEADS are gonna get even more pissy and do more STUPID-HEAD things and snowball the strike into an even longer strike (which they already did by treating the Techies with disrespect)

So what does all this have to do with me? Firstly, I am both an actor and a Techie. I know how NEEDED techies really are from both points of view and I have dealt with STUPID-HEADS before. Secondly, I had tickets to a Broadway show. The same Broadway show that I have been trying to acquire tickets for, for the past 3 years! Now those STUPID-HEADS who decided that techies aren't NEEDED have ensured that the production that I was going to see was going to be shut-down. And because the STUPID-HEADS are STUPID enough to not respect the techies, the techies won't negotiate yet. MEANING I STILL CAN'T SEE MY SHOW!!!!

Broadway Producers are a bunch of STUPID-HEADS who need to get their heads out of the gutter and finally see that techies are IMPORTANT and that money isn't everything!

Don't be hatin'! Start appreciatin'!

Support Local 1 in their efforts to provide the stage hands what they need. 

I'm really excited as I go to my very first faire this up coming month! WOot! I will post pictures and tell all about it! As for now, I need to work out the trip with my friends who are coming with me!