{"id":3570,"date":"2011-07-09T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2012-02-09T20:22:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T01:22:34","slug":"the-calling-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-calling-case\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calling Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_closed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_closed-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"case_closed\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_closed-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_closed-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_closed.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is a little something I like to call The Calling Case.  It&#8217;s a handy little box that sits with me when I&#8217;m calling a show.  The need for a convenient, easily-transported box comes mostly from touring, where I might spend four hours or less at a given calling desk before packing it all in again.  Especially on the road, I found it very handy because I could take off for the desk with nothing but this, my script, and my computer and know I have everything I will need during the show.<\/p>\n<h4>Find Your Own<\/h4>\n<p>As you can see from the ArtBin label on it, this is presumably supposed to be a case for artists to carry their tools.  I think it&#8217;s probable that I found it at a Hobby Lobby, but I&#8217;m not 100% sure. It could also have been a Walmart. The exact case doesn&#8217;t really matter, although this size is sufficient, just barely, for what I need to carry.  If it could fit a LittleLite, it would be even better.  But the key is, it&#8217;s sturdy, closes securely, has a slim profile, and a nice big handle.<\/p>\n<h4>The Contents<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_open.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_open-500x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"case_open\" width=\"500\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_open-500x448.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_open-300x269.jpg 300w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/case_open.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>My headset<\/b> &#8211; that&#8217;s a Telex PH-88 with some modifications I&#8217;ve made.  The most important function the calling case serves is to protect my headset.  Everything else that happens to fit in the case is just a bonus.<\/li>\n<li><b>Pen\/pencil case<\/b> &#8211; that&#8217;s a Mont Blanc case, but they&#8217;re not Mont Blanc writing implements.  My primary pen and pencil are made by Sensa.  I generally call every performance with a pencil in my hand, or very close by.  The pen just kind of tags along because it&#8217;s in the case with the pencil.<\/li>\n<li><b>Snackage<\/b> &#8211; I try to have a Nutri-grain bar or similar healthy and filling snack on hand in case I get hungry during the show, or end up missing a meal if things get crazy approaching curtain time.<\/li>\n<li><b>Binoculars<\/b> &#8211; this is my little luxury inclusion because my calling case travels in a road box that weighs hundreds of pounds, so the weight of the binoculars is negligible.  If I had to cart it everywhere myself I might think the weight was unnecesary.  I&#8217;d estimate maybe once a week something will happen onstage where a pair of binoculars comes in handy &#8212; maybe to check what a foreign object is on the floor, or to see if an actor is bleeding.  My actors don&#8217;t bleed once a week, I swear.  I used it on <i>Comedy of Errors<\/i> a lot to see if things were on spike, because we performed in a lot of different-shaped venues where proportions sometimes looked weird, and often I had the best perspective to see if it was just a trick of the venue, or if the actors\/crew missed their marks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Flags<\/b> &#8211; I throw a miscellaneous packet of post-it flags in, which can be used to very quickly mark a page of the script for later examination.  This is mostly useful in tech or early in a run, when changes are happening and errors are still being discovered.<\/li>\n<li><b>Occasional inclusion: LED USB keyboard light (not shown)<\/b> &#8211; sometimes I include a USB keyboard light, which I can use as a script light powered by my computer.  On the Acting Company tour I always have a LittleLite, but on shows where I have to be more self-sufficient sometimes it ends up being my keyboard light, and when that&#8217;s the case, it goes in the box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a little something I like to call The Calling Case. It&#8217;s a handy little box that sits with me when I&#8217;m calling a show. The need for a convenient, easily-transported box comes mostly from touring, where I might spend four hours or less at a given calling desk before packing it all in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[75,148,169,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570"}],"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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}