You Know You Work in Community Theatre If....

September 8, 1:26 PMDenver Theater ExaminerDeb Flomberg

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How about a little humor for Monday? This has been circling around via email for a long time, but it actually originated from The Community Theatre Green Room. They are a wonderful resource for anything theatre related, and I hope this list makes you laugh!

 You know you work in community theatre if...

1. your living room sofa spends more time on stage than you do.
2. you have your own secret family recipe for stage blood.
3. you've ever appeared on stage wearing your own clothes.
4. you can find a prop in the prop room that hasn't seen the light of day in ten years, but you don't know where your own vacuum cleaner is.
5. you have a Frequent Shopper Card at The Salvation Army.
6. you start buying your work clothes at Goodwill so you can buy your costumes at the mall.
7. you've ever cleaned a tuxedo with a magic marker.
8. you've ever said, "Don't worry - we'll just hot glue it."
9. you've ever appeared on stage in an outfit held together with hot glue.
10. you've ever seriously considered not doing in the murder victim because the gunshot might wake up the audience.
11. you name your son Samuel and tell him that his middle name is in honor the French side of the family.
12. you've ever appeared in a show where tech week is devoted to getting the running time under four and a half hours.
13. your lighting director has ever missed a cue because he was blinded by the glare from the sea of bald heads in the audience.
14. you've ever appeared on stage in an English drawing room murder mystery where half the cast spoke with southern accents.
15. you've ever called for a line -- in front of an audience
16. you've ever heard the head of the set construction crew say, "Just paint it black - no one will ever see it."
17. your mother has ever greeted you after a performance with the words "Don't give up your day job."

Check out the rest of the list and more fun at The Community Theatre Green Room.