{"id":1791,"date":"2010-03-13T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T06:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2010-03-13T01:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T06:57:15","slug":"rj-turns-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/rj-turns-50\/","title":{"rendered":"R&#038;J Turns 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we celebrated our 50th performance of <i>R&#038;J<\/i>.  This was our official 50th performance, not counting three previews and an invited dress.<\/p>\n<p>As our run is something like 80-ish performances (we keep canceling and adding and it&#8217;s driving me crazy as the database is currently built to have performance numbers manually associated with dates &#8212; that is changing!)  But as we are only doing 80-something performances, 50 is really the only milestone we hit.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I had to deal with something like this was a few months ago, right before I left to start rehearsals, when I was asked if a curtain speech should say &#8220;9,000 performances&#8221; or &#8220;performance number 9,000.&#8221; (I said &#8220;performance number 9,000,&#8221; which I later read in the press is what was said.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, milestones and anniversaries have been a common occurrence in my career, so I tend to see them and plan to celebrate them out of habit.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we were doing a sit-down in Phoenix when we hit #50, and I had a little sign on the callboard saying &#8220;Happy 50th&#8221; and that was about it.<\/p>\n<p>This year as I saw the numbers creeping up from 40, I counted ahead and at the start of the week said, &#8220;Our 50th is going to be in Hartford [Wisconsin], we should get a little something for the cast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do the best job at remembering to pick stuff up on the one occasion I was in a store, but I did get some little candies, and it so happens the venue&#8217;s hospitality had a nice candy jar, so I combined them to make a cornucopia of candy, under my sign that I had prepared during some downtime earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>I also took a page from <i>Phantom<\/i>&#8216;s publicists, who are fond of including fun facts (usually spelled phun phacts) along with anniversary press releases (like &#8220;<i>Phantom<\/i> has used 43,520 pounds of dry ice&#8221; and stuff like that.)  So since my sign was looking a little empty, I decided to compile a few facts that would still be interesting even with only 50 performances to work with.  Since I was planning this a few days in advance, I threw together a layout in the database that would keep some of these stats updated so I didn&#8217;t have to do any math on the day of the event.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total time in performance to date: 129 hours, 37 minutes and 30 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Seen by 26,762 people!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Banished&#8221; spoken 1,431 times!<\/li>\n<li>Someone called &#8220;Ho&#8221; 530 times!<\/li>\n<li>Animal life encountered [backstage or onstage]: bat, bird, mouse, beetles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everybody seemed very happy with the candy, and intrigued by our fun facts (which are calculated up to the performance before the 50th, and include previews and the invited dress).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/candy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"candy\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1792\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/candy.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/candy-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we celebrated our 50th performance of R&#038;J. This was our official 50th performance, not counting three previews and an invited dress. As our run is something like 80-ish performances (we keep canceling and adding and it&#8217;s driving me crazy as the database is currently built to have performance numbers manually associated with dates &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,6],"tags":[76,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}