Last night marked the closing night of "A Night of One Acts" with Love Creek Productions (that Off-Off Broadway company, of which I am a member). Unbeknownst to Erin, Sunday night's show began at 7 p.m. not 8 p.m. like the two previous nights. Oops!
As I was en route to the theater last night, I received a text message at 7:10 p.m. from my scene partner saying, "Our show started at 7 tonight". Then I checked my email and at 6 p.m. my director had emailed a reminder saying the same thing. Now, I accept full responsibility for not checking the flyer of the program to double-check start times BUT my director and I had exchanged emails earlier in the day and that might have been a better time to remind me OR my scene partner arrived to the theater at 5:30 p.m. and found out our show started at 7 p.m., so a text message from him would have been helpful too! Again, though, I know it was my own fault and thank goodness this is a relaxed group of people and a night of One Acts is easy to shift around a bit.
So we opened the second half after intermission, which was great cause it allowed us to set the stage. We had our best performance of the run (still with dropped lines) and I felt humbled and embarrassed for my mistake, but no one seemed to care. I love Off-Off Broadway! Good lesson to learn early in my career... no one will look out for you, you must be on top of yourself! I don't think I'll ever be late again!
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