Thursday Feb. 21

6 am-Began watching the weather forecasts for tonight.

8:30 am arrived at work. I immediately took all of the tickets for tonights show offline so they would not be availble for online purchasing. This would force everyone to speak to us in person to order tickets for tonight.

9 am-Getting coffee at the Market Square Coffee shop Valerie Pollard and I cancelled the Follies rehearsal early on. Trying to get 50 people to a rehearsal is too difficult when the weather is crazy.

10:30 am- Box Office Manager Alexis Davis and I talked. I told her we wouldn't make the call until 3:30 pm if we were going to cancel CROWNS for tonight. Tell everyone to call back after 3:30 to order tickets for the show.

11:30 am- Talked with Mary Jane Bowles the Director of CROWNS and asked her to talk to the cast to see if they could re-schedule should we cancel.

12:30 pm -Everything was melting and it was looking like we would go on as planned.

1:30 pm April (Cochran)called some of her cast of Harriet the Spy and many of them can make rehearsal so they will go ahead as planned. They will be done by 6:30.

2:30 The forecast is still not looking good.

3:15 Forecast looks really bad for 7 pm-10pm. Prime show time. We checked the box office charts and only had 26 people with tickets for tonight. The theatre only seats 60. Called Mary Jane and talked about the cast getting here. Some are not sure.

3:30 Took one last look at the forecast. I figured that several of our ticket holders would not attend if the weather got worse. So....I decided that it was better to make the call than have anyone get hurt trying to come to the show.

3:35 We cancelled the performance of CROWNS for tonight. This is the first time in my 25 years we have cancelled a show because of weather. I'm going over in a few minutes to watch the Harriet the Spy rehearsal. Then home to choreograph a song for Follies rehearsal tomorrow night. Hopefully that will go on as scheduled.

What a day!