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[O.Wilde]

So, you made it. Well, sort of. It's a blackbox theatre, it's gig-to-gig, the pay is shit, and who knows if things will actually come together. But you've got a job, so you're happy. For now. The producers are crazy, the stage manager is already overworked (hooray for week 1 of rehearsal), the technical director is a week behind, and the lighting guy just came up to you and said: "The fucking DMX shorted and popped a lamp on the PARCAN so now I need all new gel and another GOBO and where the fuck am I gonna find the budget for that?!" Whatever that means. Fucking showbiz, man.

Roll to put on a play (or musical, or like dance thing), this is gonna be pretty simple, just come up with a name and a job. This is gonna be pretty fast and loose, looking for 4 people to begin with, but it can grow as large as interest dictates. You can choose anything as a job, I've got some suggestions below, but go wild. You don't need to know anything about the industry, the general vibe is everyone is crazy and everyone is on the point of a breakdown all the time. It's great fun.

Spoiler: Theatre Information (click to show/hide)

Blackbox
Cash: $10,000
Seating: 98 + 2 Handicap
Non-Equity
Staff:
-Fish (Janitor)
-The Playwright (uh... Playwright)
-Jean Lafayette (Actor)
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Spoiler: Potential Jobs (click to show/hide)

Stage Manager (Manages everything)
Director (Comes up with impossible visions)
Producer (Is annoying as hell. Writes paychecks)
Actor/Singer/Dancer (Forgets lines, breaks props)
Technical Director (Builds shit)
Technician (Fixes everything the actors break, other misc jobs)
Electrician (Electrocutes self, falls off ladder)
Costumer (Redoes seams for the 100th time. Because of actors, of course)
Playwright (Writes plays, yells at actors)

[TheBiggerFish]

Janitor:Ascend to Almighty Janitor status.
((Yes, there is probably a janitor.))

[Harry Baldman]

The Playwright is currently locked in a closet with a crate of vodka, producing his latest masterpiece.

It shall be an examination of... alcoholism. Write what you know. And it'll be a musical. Gotta try new things.

It promises to be his best work yet.

[Pancaek]

Jean Lafayette is a middling actor at best, who thinks of himself as god's gift to the acting world.

Currently he's ingesting some liquid courage.

[penguinofhonor]

Name: Rita Royce
Job: Technician

Rita thought she was lucky to get a theatre job straight out of college, but she's beginning to doubt that. Everything is always on the verge of falling apart and she does not get paid nearly enough for hat she does. Still, it's valuable experience, so she does what she can to cope. Right now that entails smoking a bowl before the show, as she does every show. To calm the nerves.

[Detoxicated]

Name: Barry Whitelemon
Job: Technical Manager

Begin constructing a stage with lever controlled, moving floor tiles.

[NJW2000]

Name: Bert Curtis, stage name Frankie Daydream.

Job: Singer

Bert, a rather simple and timid young man with the voice of Orpeheus and the body of Adonis, is currently crouched behind the curtain, praying that none of his three rich and elderly wives will find him. He is also hiding from his producer in the music industry, who arranged these marriages, as well as several upsetting and confusing experiences with young women and alcohol. He has gone into hiding in the theatre to avoid such events.

Bert peeks out from his place of concealment, trying to see if anyone recognises him from his eminent musical career. If the coast is clear, he examines several closets, looking for a disguise or a better hiding place.

[O.Wilde]

Janitor:Ascend to Almighty Janitor status.

[5] Fish ASCENDS by procuring a mop and a mop bucket. Now, he controls the cleanliness.

Burt Curtis, the singer who dissappeared a few weeks ago, falls on his face in front of you.

The Playwright is currently locked in a closet with a crate of vodka, producing his latest masterpiece.

It shall be an examination of... alcoholism. Write what you know. And it'll be a musical. Gotta try new things.

It promises to be his best work yet.

[2] The Playwright manages to rhyme Alcoholism and Catholicism. He curls up in a ball and rocks back and forth, remembering his younger years. It's not going well.

Jean Lafayette is a middling actor at best, who thinks of himself as god's gift to the acting world.

Currently he's ingesting some liquid courage.

[5] After a few drinks, Jean is INSPIRED! (+1 to rolls)

Name: Rita Royce
Job: Technician

Rita Royce exists, and it is good. (Feel free to submit two actions next turn, and I'll retcon one in here)

Begin constructing a stage with lever controlled, moving floor tiles.

[6] Barry races to the shop, and finds all the parts he thinks he needs! Wonderful! [4] He gets to work, creating several floor tiles.

Bert peeks out from his place of concealment, trying to see if anyone recognises him from his eminent musical career. If the coast is clear, he examines several closets, looking for a disguise or a better hiding place.

Bert peers out from the closet [1] and falls flat on his face, right in front of Fish, the Janitor, who
[5] (Fame) vs. [4-1^{(Falling like a Fool)}](Discretion)=[3]
Recognizes you!

The Producers are [3] indifferent to the current situation. They just want the show ready, dammit!

Spoiler: Theatre Information (click to show/hide)

Blackbox
Cash: $10,000
Seating: 98 + 2 Handicap
Non-Equity
Staff:
-Fish (Janitor)
-The Playwright (uh... Playwright)
-Jean Lafayette (Actor) [INSPIRED]
-Bert Curtis (Singer)
-Barry Whitelemon (Technical Manager)
-Rita Royce (Technician)

[TheBiggerFish]

"...Okay, this is very random and I am not going to ask you about it.  They're kind of busy looking for you though.  In case you weren't aware of that."
Help the guy up, then carry on cleaning and screw in the lightbulb for Dustan.

[Harry Baldman]

Perhaps knowing how to write musical notation would help, but the Playwright will not let this stop him.

Instead he will sing the most important parts on his own, writing them out by intuition as they come into his mind!

Some overlap will be there, of course. It's kind of like recording an album, but more artistically interpretive.

[Dustan Hache]

I am the electrician, working on figuring out how many of the other people it will take to screw in a lightbulb.

[TheBiggerFish]

The answer is one Janitor.

[Prophet]

Name: Solomon Cain.

Job: Musician.

Begin practicing with one of my instruments.

[darkpaladin109]

Name: Jay Jacobson
Job: Costumer
Sew some dicks on the costumes. Small, hard to see dicks.

[NJW2000]

"Uh... who? Looking for me? Ah no, this is... uh, method acting! I'm in a short biodrama about Frankie Daydream and his disappearance put on in Gaelic! So I convinced you, yes? Good... um... acting? Hro'gath, beatha tae uisce, eh?"

Find a hiding place or a disguise backstage. Avoid each and every female, as well as anyone who looks like they have connections in the music world, at all costs.