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For the record I rarely read LJ. My last post here was on Nov 11th. I only stick my head out of the ground when someone tells me there is some hoopla going on. I don't even have Rebecca on my friends list, quite honestly there is an aura around having/not having someone on your friends list. If you put them there they are your friend, if you take them off then you are not their friend. I take the easy way and only just ignore everyone except those closest to me or that I have grown to care about OUTSIDE of LJ. I think it's absurd that George and other people I know add/remove people from their friends list and start trouble over it. When the hell did LJ become the basis for determining your friendships with people?
Anyway... This cast vote does set a precedent. We are actually able to vote people OFF cast, it's no longer a joke. Actually I never thought it was a joke, and I never thought it was just a formality. In the past I had been pretty pissed off that people I didn't want on cast actually got in. Right now, this instant there is only one reason I voted against Rebecca, and that was to make everyone else happy, and to stop the current cast turmoil. I'm not saying I am following the crowd here. I'm saying that there was plenty of cast bitterness toward Rebecca and it just wasn't easy to hear the constant badgering. And I'm not even talking about badgering behind her back. As an example, during the load outs for Brookhaven and Nyack there was plenty of "Rebecca like attention" and "Rebecca does this wrong", and she WAS right there. So what did she think was going on? Was it a joke to her?
Even at non-show related events there was plenty of negative Rebecca comments. There is only so much bad mouthing and gossip I can handle before I want to start killing people. Do I have to constantly hear things about her at home, at work, outside of Rocky when spending time with Rocky members? So to stop the turmoil I voted NO.
Is that a real reason? You're damn right it is. There is no way in hell anyone should be allowed into any group/cast/club/job for any reason if their presence is going to cause such turmoil that the rest of the members are going to suffer from said turmoil. Interestingly enough my vote was to bring peace to a few people I voted NO on during previous votes. But they are now part of the team and the team must be protected.
If I had an employee that caused turmoil with the rest of my workers I would fire him in a hart beat. That person is wasting my money by making everyone unproductive. Is there a person on my theatre show lighting team that people just don't want to work with? They are gone! Is there someone on cast that causes trouble? Sure there is, we have SEVERAL instigators on cast. Depending on the time of year or the time of month each, or dare I say time of the show each one of them should be removed from cast, but this is not an option. Again some of these people I voted against during their votes. If given the power I would asked them to leave and would gladly have accepted Rebecca in their place. But again, the team that can't be changed must be protected from turmoil.
So that's it. Liz, George and Goody took the floor and bashed the hell out of Rebecca. They made their cases, and apparently people listened. I believe that's what happed. Carrie drove the point home by saying that she would be at the show less and less if Rebecca got in. And that was all Carrie said, perhaps that's what did it. Although I found it interesting a few Carrie non-supporters looked at her and were happy by that idea.
There were good points said about Rebecca. She remembered when and where and what to do/say during the show, even if she does not know why. On this reason alone I felt she was needed in cast. She just did what she is supposed to and she tried to take initiative, sometimes was stepping on other people's toes in the process. But I don't think anyone ever told her she was toe stepping. We even compared her to Walter and that he does not remember or perform when needed, and why should we have another dead beat on cast? But Walter got in, and Rebecca did not. Walter does not cause cast turmoil.
We are living in a world where every vote DOES count. This was proved first in Florida and then in Ohio. GOD DAMN DEMMOCRATST THAT ARE TOO LAZY OR TOO STUPID TO REALIZE THEIR VOTE COUNTS! If our cast members don't realize that they have a responsibility to vote then to hell with them all, or at least the non voters. Let's make voting mandatory, and those that don't vote must pay some kind of cast dues (hey there's an idea, cast dues) before they are allowed to perform again.
Not enough cast members to pull off a stunt like this? I believe there very well soon will be.
Our Newbie training periods are god-awful-way-too long. I pushed for the new floating audition periods so we could get more people into cast. We just don't have enough cast members to sustain a great/full cast of people when EVERYONE wants to take a week or here, or a week off there, or leaves early every week from the show.
What the hell every happen to RESPONSABILITY of the cast members to be there every week, regardless? Geesh! Gone are the good old days that only Carrie and I seem to remember where you performed on your death bed because you LOVED Rocky Horror. Cast responsibility has been replaced by cast bitterness, turmoil and loathing. There are other responsibility issues, oh like costumes and punctuality and makeup and wigs, but let's not go into them because I'm no angel in some areas either.
So with the new training periods perhaps we should make some other changes to our cast policies as well. Instead of waiting for a final vote some 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 months after a person auditions, we should have some kind of intermediary review. Say 8 weeks. At the review the move from official "Newbie" to "Junior Member". After the review they are either kicked off, told they will be given a second chance to fix their mistakes, or they move to Junior Member where there is no longer a risk of being voted out. Then they stay a Junior Member until they finish the rest of their training and start to spend money on their costume. Then they need to go through a public bashing at a cast meeting where they are told everything they did right/wrong and they get to plead their case to gain Full Member status.
So this was the first time someone got voted out. Prior to this no one ever thought there needed to be a situation where we pulled a Newbie aside and told them they were in jeopardy of not getting in. Remember, everyone thought the voting process was a joke or a formality.
Ranting over.
Next time cast a vote.
Next time realize this is serious.
Next time the Newbies need to understand we mean business.
Next time the Newbies need to understand that if they are not good enough they are gone.
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