So Way back last year about this time, I was having a nervous breakdown over a bunch of railing hassle... That was for a show that we had done for a couple years... Well the fall out of that disaster show (not my company's fault) was that this year, they were scaling WAY back to the point it was nothing... The producers even went to the second string production companies that do more cheesy shows for them that are mostly pipe and drape, and fast fold screens...
The show loads in in 2 weeks as of yesterday...
Guess who called today...
Yea, so the show that was dead, suddenly has life... And let me tell you, those rat bastards have high ambitions considering its two weeks out, and we're just beginning the process... First it started as a little custom drape, and some slightly over-sized stock flats... Only had to meet walls at one point per run of flats, simple cornice to finish it off... Now they've changed their minds... They want the walls to run up to the ceiling of the room, which by the way is a stretched crotch vault, and our flats run at odd angles to the 4 arches in question...
Could we do that given a month?.. Well, probably, but it would be a bitch... 2 Months, sure... 2 Weeks, no real chance...
Oh, and they want a price on it for the morning... The drawings didn't get to my office email until 5:02pm...
They're not getting a quote in the morning...
Oh, and yea, I've got another show loading in the same weekend... Why can't these corporations take friggin' turns... Been dead since November, and now this...
Shit...
Posted by Backstage at January 15, 2007 10:28 PM | TrackBack