Final Day of Final Battle

Yesterday was the one and only performance of The Final Battle for LeakyCon 2011. It went pretty much as I expected. The call times were unclear, and many people were not where they needed to be when they needed to be there. Though all of the actors were asked to bring their own foundation, at least 3/4 of them did not. I was apparently the only makeup designer who knew which characters she had been assigned to, and it took me nearly 2 hours to finish 7 actors makeup (even though I only worked on each actor for, at most, 15 minutes) because none of them were there when they were called. I was expected to be doing mic checks simultaneously with the makeup applications. That also did not happen. During the run of the show, all the mic changes actually went really well backstage. The mic change crew leader and I had gone through the whole script with a chart of the changes, which I'm sure helped us tremendously. The scene changes that happened during the show were another story entirely. They took FOREVER because they had never been through a tech rehearsal. I have heard many an actor talk about how they will never take tech rehearsals for granted again, now.