Opening night

 I am happy to report that opening night of "The Wolves" went very well.  The actors, nine very high energy teenage girls and one adult playing the soccer mom, did an excellent job.  The audience laughed and cried at all the right times.  And, drum roll please, I am happy to report that I blew the whistle loud and long in all the right places.  In fact I hit all my cues on time.  Of course it does help that I have the stage manager talking to me through headphones, coordinating her light cues with my music ones.  It's hard to mess up when someone is talking you through everything step by step.  But I have five more performances to get through so I won't pat myself on the back too hard yet.  We did have one interesting occurrence though.  There is pre-show music that plays for the half hour before the show actually starts while people are finding their seats.  Five minutes before show time the stage manager came to me and told me to restart the preshow music because there was a delay.  Then she walked away.  I was imagining all sorts of terrible things, broken bones, nerves, vomiting, lost or torn costumes.  So many things can go wrong.  When she came back a little later she informed me that we were delaying the start because one of the girl's family were running late and she really really wanted them to see the show from the beginning.  So we waited.  They were finally seated about ten minutes later and the show started.  Live theater is always fun.