Our official opening night and all the theatre gremlins decided to buy a ticket.  Full prep  (including ritual tea drinking) complete, we were ready.

Brilliant news – we sold out!  The excitement and buzz was all around as we watched the queue get longer and longer to get into theatre 2.  Get in done, time to let the audience in.  But then…no music.  Where’s the music?  Quick dash to sound desk and the music starts – phew.

Lights up…just a fraction too early, but no problem.  Then transition to scene 2.  WHERE’S THE MUSIC?!

Lights up with just one cast member onstage.  No biggie, I improvise and start the scene as though I were entering.  Then the transition to scene 3.  WHERE’S THE (insert expletive here) MUSIC?!!!!

Scene 4 – Finally the music gremlins seem to have been appeased, and go off to torture someone else. The lights go on/off as expected.

Final scene – where’s the blackout?!!!!  There are no more lines in the script.  What do I do?  Quick plan to rescue and just as I’m about to go with it, the beautiful feeling of blackout.

Lessons Learned – Things will go wrong.  I cannot control them.  The audience do not know what they have missed.  It sucks.  Get over it.  Do everything in your power to make sure it never happens again.