Are You IN TECH?- Page 2
Are You IN TECH?
#25Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 12:57amI obviously haven't done Broadway but my theatre experinece was that tech is very difficult and doestake all of your life when you're on the production side of the piece--but much much less so for the actors--it's boring and they have to spnd hours on standby but it doesn't fill up every second of the day...
#26Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 1:18am
Yes but in anticipation of the opening (even if tech is boring) you need to channel your energy. And usually somewhere near tech is the sitz probe.
That is the first synching of singing and orchestra. It requires concentration. As an actor, the tech thing makes perfect sense to me. I avoid all complications during this time.
#27Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 1:48amFair enough, it does make sense that you'd want to have all your focus on the show.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
sephyr
Leading Actor Joined: 11/21/10
#30Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 2:53amEven in my non-Broadway theatre experience, I had to make sure I was staying focused and fine-tuning my character. It's so easy to get caught in your nerves while all of this technical stuff is going on around you. It's a very tiring time and distractions are definitely not needed.
#31Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 7:18amI'd reply to this thread but I'm about to be in sitz probe...which means...wait for it...I'M IN TECH!
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#32Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 7:44amYea, they could have changed it up a bit..."How can you declare your love for me today? I HAVE A TEN OUT OF TWEEEEEEEEEEEEELVE!!!!!!!!"
PEACE.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#33Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 9:11am
Hotel party covers "I'm in tech!" just like paper covers rock. All she needed to give him was one syllable. Yes. No. If she had time to be entranced by an Ivy Lynn pop music, but supposedly not-like-Glee solo in someone else's hotel room, she had the time to give him an answer or tell him that she's gotta think about it.
Now, if you excuse me, I must forget any number more than 8 because I AM IN TECH!
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#35Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 9:39amIs a sitz probe that thing that aliens use on unsuspecting farmers?
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#36Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 9:44amJane, Jan, and Danny got Tony Noms, BUT THEY'RE IN TECH!
#37Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 9:55am
If she had time to be entranced by an Ivy Lynn pop music, but supposedly not-like-Glee solo in someone else's hotel room, she had the time to give him an answer or tell him that she's gotta think about it.
It seemed to me that the gist of what she was saying was "I need time to think about this. The extreme pressures I'm under being (yes) in tech make it hard for me to concentrate." And basically all of that is a classic way of saying "no" without using the word, I think. Anyhow, her response made perfect sense in context: she wanted to brush him off and her being "in tech" was the best excuse she could think of.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#38Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 10:00am
I didn't see it so much as a brush off, but an inability to even consider a life changing decision during a stressful time. (And she'd be right.)
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#39Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 10:01am
"Is a sitz probe that thing that aliens use on unsuspecting farmers?"
Only some of them are unsuspecting, Wynbish.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#40Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 10:11amI have a friend who got a zitz probe with her Proactiv order
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#42Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/2/12 at 10:56amSondheimfan, I'm so sorry but (no joke) it's tech week...
#43Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/3/12 at 5:05pmKaren seems to be one the dumbest characters on tv right now (which is saying a lot). This is just the latest example of her being totally un-theater savvy and pretty much ridiculous. And I agree with the poster who said that this seems like a convenient excuse more than anything. It's true, you do need to focus during tech week, which makes the late night karaoke shin dig in the hotel room even more ridiculous. But, I can't imagine not being able to decide about a thing like that. As far as I'm concerned, if you ask someone to marry you and they have to give it a lot of thought...there might be a problem. Just saying...
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
``oscar wilde``
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#44Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/3/12 at 5:41pm
Would someone please tell Gabriel Byrne that I can't be in treatment because I'm in tech.
--Blair Underwood
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
stockmanjr
Understudy Joined: 3/15/07
#45Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/4/12 at 3:59pmI think we need the "I'm in tech" drinking game while they're in tech!
stockmanjr
Understudy Joined: 3/15/07
#46Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/4/12 at 3:59pmI think we need the "I'm in tech" drinking game while they're in tech!
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#47Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/4/12 at 4:05pmThe next episode is the start of previews. That would be a very short drinking game.
ChildrenwillListen
Featured Actor Joined: 3/12/12
#48Are You IN TECH?
Posted: 5/4/12 at 9:06pmI am a tech major which means that yes I am in fact in TECH!!!!! And I love it.
