Are You IN TECH?

[EricMontreal22]

I obviously haven't done Broadway but my theatre experinece was that tech is very difficult and doestake all of your life when you're on the production side of the piece--but much much less so for the actors--it's boring and they have to spnd hours on standby but it doesn't fill up every second of the day...

[goldenboy]

Yes but in anticipation of the opening (even if tech is boring) you need to channel your energy. And usually somewhere near tech is the sitz probe.

That is the first synching of singing and orchestra. It requires concentration. As an actor, the tech thing makes perfect sense to me. I avoid all complications during this time.

[EricMontreal22]

Fair enough, it does make sense that you'd want to have all your focus on the show.

[SondheimFan5]

Don't shoot the pilot. The plane might crash.

[f13overture]

^^ BAHAHAHA!!

[sephyr]

Even in my non-Broadway theatre experience, I had to make sure I was staying focused and fine-tuning my character. It's so easy to get caught in your nerves while all of this technical stuff is going on around you. It's a very tiring time and distractions are definitely not needed.

[artscallion]

I'd reply to this thread but I'm about to be in sitz probe...which means...wait for it...I'M IN TECH!

[SueleenGay]

Yea, they could have changed it up a bit..."How can you declare your love for me today? I HAVE A TEN OUT OF TWEEEEEEEEEEEEELVE!!!!!!!!"

[Wynbish]

Hotel party covers "I'm in tech!" just like paper covers rock. All she needed to give him was one syllable. Yes. No. If she had time to be entranced by an Ivy Lynn pop music, but supposedly not-like-Glee solo in someone else's hotel room, she had the time to give him an answer or tell him that she's gotta think about it.

Now, if you excuse me, I must forget any number more than 8 because I AM IN TECH!

[PalJoey]

Can one trip and slip into a sitz probe?

[Wynbish]

Is a sitz probe that thing that aliens use on unsuspecting farmers?

[showchoirguy]

Jane, Jan, and Danny got Tony Noms, BUT THEY'RE IN TECH!

[kdogg36]

If she had time to be entranced by an Ivy Lynn pop music, but supposedly not-like-Glee solo in someone else's hotel room, she had the time to give him an answer or tell him that she's gotta think about it.

It seemed to me that the gist of what she was saying was "I need time to think about this. The extreme pressures I'm under being (yes) in tech make it hard for me to concentrate." And basically all of that is a classic way of saying "no" without using the word, I think. Anyhow, her response made perfect sense in context: she wanted to brush him off and her being "in tech" was the best excuse she could think of.

[dramamama611]

I didn't see it so much as a brush off, but an inability to even consider a life changing decision during a stressful time. (And she'd be right.)

[artscallion]

"Is a sitz probe that thing that aliens use on unsuspecting farmers?"

Only some of them are unsuspecting, Wynbish.

[Wynbish]

I have a friend who got a zitz probe with her Proactiv order

[SondheimFan5]

Ron's in tech too. Don't forget that boy.

[showchoirguy]

Sondheimfan, I'm so sorry but (no joke) it's tech week...

[someone.else's.story2]

Karen seems to be one the dumbest characters on tv right now (which is saying a lot). This is just the latest example of her being totally un-theater savvy and pretty much ridiculous. And I agree with the poster who said that this seems like a convenient excuse more than anything. It's true, you do need to focus during tech week, which makes the late night karaoke shin dig in the hotel room even more ridiculous. But, I can't imagine not being able to decide about a thing like that. As far as I'm concerned, if you ask someone to marry you and they have to give it a lot of thought...there might be a problem. Just saying...

[Gothampc]

Would someone please tell Gabriel Byrne that I can't be in treatment because I'm in tech.

--Blair Underwood

[stockmanjr]

I think we need the "I'm in tech" drinking game while they're in tech!

[stockmanjr]

I think we need the "I'm in tech" drinking game while they're in tech!

[Wynbish]

The next episode is the start of previews. That would be a very short drinking game.

[ChildrenwillListen]

I am a tech major which means that yes I am in fact in TECH!!!!! And I love it.