What an incredible Opening Night at the Comedy Bar. Now, It would be sad if I gave up on blogging immediately after my personal challenge to update nightly. So here I am (the morning after). I landed in Toronto just before Noon yesterday, picked up flyers, posters from Top Knotch (good place for Toronto Comedy Acts to print cards, etc.) and got straight to work at the ITC studio, split up t-shirts from Machine Screenprinting (sweet shirts) and we laminated Festival ID cards.
To be perfectly honest, these are all things I like to have done a week BEFORE the festival starts, but when you’re producing from out-of-town (and in this case, out-of-the-country) you make things happen when you can. Our Festival staff had help from two volunteers yesterday and we got posters and a couple hundred flyers out around the neighborhood despite the rain. I’d like to have at least 3 volunteers every day to help do the stuff that comes up. We have Zero so far today. AHHHHHH!
But back to last night –
After hours of festival prep work, it was already 7pm and we had to get over to the venue. We set up the Box Office and Tech. Teams starting arriving. Local groups picked up shirts and ID badges. WDWMKR (an ITC Harold Team) took the stage, and just like every festival, in every city, It started. Three Acts (WDWMKR, Standards & Practices, and The Carnegie Hall Show) and they were ALL incredible. We even had a photo-blogger capture the entire night, Thanks Sharilyn!
After shows I went to grab groceries for the week and got back to work, some late night stuff for Toronto and a couple things for North Carolina and Richmond. side note: NC Comedy Arts submission material should be full-on ready by the end of the week. Early Deadline 10/9 ($20), Regular Deadline 10/31 ($35).
Awesome.
Tags: Festival, ITC, NC Comedy Arts Festival, Toronto, Volunteers
I’m so glad the opening night was such a success! That starts things off on a high note for the week which is of course, awesome! Rock out ZW.