Let's Talk About Dick

Had our first front of house meeting with the house manager, Dick (Dick’s not his real name but that’s what everybody calls him so...). Dick’s not a big one for meetings...he once had a meeting to tell us that without appreciating the irony at all. That tells you all you need to know about him.

Like most of us, Dick would rather be somewhere else. Bennett wants to be on stage, I want to be on Miss Ex (and to be a playwright...both would be nice). Dick wants to be a rock star and he’s actually a pretty talented musician it’s just that...well, the poor bastard plays the flute so, I guess, until a wave of Jethro Tull nostalgia sweeps the nation he’s focusing on his theatre management career which was what the meeting was really about.

Dick told us that if we don’t screw up too much he might be able to get out of this “hell hole” theater and get promoted to one of the nicer, more prestigious theaters. That’s pretty much verbatim.

As far as pep talks go it wasn’t exactly “Braveheart”, but then again Dick isn’t exactly Mel Gibson. I mean Dick does not hold the Jews responsible for all the wars in the world. He does, however, hold the Jews responsible for that awful Tom Cruise re-make of “War of the Worlds”. In fact I think he had a meeting about that a couple years ago.