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Any of you ever hear of the Whirling Dervishes? http://www.dankphotos.com/whirling/
Well, the Society of Culteral Languages and their sponsors are bringing the Whirling Dervishes to Nashville!
As if getting through Lion King and all it's exceptions to the ticketing rules wasn't the biggest challenge of my career, now I am teaching the fundementals of ticketing to a really nice Turkish guy from Vanderbilt who has never sold a ticket much less been the producer for a touring show.....between the TPAC Event Services guy and myself we are training this poor guy in the unique language that is the theater and much more than he ever thought he would have to know about ticketing.....They couldn't get any of the halls at Vanderbilt on such short notice and we are happy to help them...But on my goodness...Talk about extreme opposites! This is a complete shift in my mental gears!
Side bar: Halit brought one of his sponsors to the theater today....oh my god, he was a stone cold fox with a sence of humor....telling me he really needed me to cut him a deal as it is the holidays and he has 4 wives to feed & 8 children for whom he must buy gifts. He was joking so when he asked what it would take to get me to cut him a deal...without even thinking, I "Yes And" him by blurting "make me your 5th wife"....I thought my Tech Director and Event Services guy were going to swallow their tounges....JR the TD remembers me from my tech days, later he mentioned that he had forgotten my baser side and he misses it. And my Event Services Guy only knows me as the Ticketing Manager....he knows I am always good for giggle but Never in his widest dreams did he think I would ever "play" with a new client! (news flash - Neither did I). Poor Halit doesn't know me well enough to know It was a joke....so he was just embarassed...but Corr, now here is man who appreciated the humor, He wipes out his date book and starts thumbing through it.....Halit asks him what he is doing that he is being rude to us...and Corr says "I am looking for a date that will suit my other wives for the wedding." ...I burst out laughing at the look on Halit's face....then Corr taps the book and says "ah, I have nothing until the week AFTER the show!" he snaps his book closed and shrugs his shoulders...I shrug too and say "pity, could have been fun" then we start negotiating in earnest...I did cut him a sweet deal and this afternoon I got a "thank you" in the form of a single peach colored rose...."To my almost 5th wife, Thank you for all you did for me today. Your lonely almost husband." Damn, I wish I had asked to see pictures of his kids - then I would have known how much of what he was saying was true or if it all was in jest....I really don't know if he is married to any woman or not...ah well.....there is always Settlement Time! Think I will sign up tomorrow to be the settler of that show! Now that should tell you something....me offering to work nights AND stay to settle?!?!?!
Today's other shows built, AFI (www.afireinside.net)
all my goth readers should be perking up. This show is on sale now!
and the comic Ron White....
the Blue Collar Tour guy who always works with a lite cigar in one hand and a glass of alcohol in the other.... on sale Dec 15th
also sent over to Ticketmaster the gospel show God's Trombones....on sale as soon as I can get it checked and all the holds put in place....so some time tomorrow afternoon or Thursday morning at the latest.
so there is a little someth'n someth'n for everyone....
Muslims
Goths
rednecks
and christians
tomorrow I work on the Ebony Fashion Show and a spoken word series hosted by local poet Minton Sparks...
Diversity Diversity......Thy name is TPAC.
Well, the Society of Culteral Languages and their sponsors are bringing the Whirling Dervishes to Nashville!
As if getting through Lion King and all it's exceptions to the ticketing rules wasn't the biggest challenge of my career, now I am teaching the fundementals of ticketing to a really nice Turkish guy from Vanderbilt who has never sold a ticket much less been the producer for a touring show.....between the TPAC Event Services guy and myself we are training this poor guy in the unique language that is the theater and much more than he ever thought he would have to know about ticketing.....They couldn't get any of the halls at Vanderbilt on such short notice and we are happy to help them...But on my goodness...Talk about extreme opposites! This is a complete shift in my mental gears!
Side bar: Halit brought one of his sponsors to the theater today....oh my god, he was a stone cold fox with a sence of humor....telling me he really needed me to cut him a deal as it is the holidays and he has 4 wives to feed & 8 children for whom he must buy gifts. He was joking so when he asked what it would take to get me to cut him a deal...without even thinking, I "Yes And" him by blurting "make me your 5th wife"....I thought my Tech Director and Event Services guy were going to swallow their tounges....JR the TD remembers me from my tech days, later he mentioned that he had forgotten my baser side and he misses it. And my Event Services Guy only knows me as the Ticketing Manager....he knows I am always good for giggle but Never in his widest dreams did he think I would ever "play" with a new client! (news flash - Neither did I). Poor Halit doesn't know me well enough to know It was a joke....so he was just embarassed...but Corr, now here is man who appreciated the humor, He wipes out his date book and starts thumbing through it.....Halit asks him what he is doing that he is being rude to us...and Corr says "I am looking for a date that will suit my other wives for the wedding." ...I burst out laughing at the look on Halit's face....then Corr taps the book and says "ah, I have nothing until the week AFTER the show!" he snaps his book closed and shrugs his shoulders...I shrug too and say "pity, could have been fun" then we start negotiating in earnest...I did cut him a sweet deal and this afternoon I got a "thank you" in the form of a single peach colored rose...."To my almost 5th wife, Thank you for all you did for me today. Your lonely almost husband." Damn, I wish I had asked to see pictures of his kids - then I would have known how much of what he was saying was true or if it all was in jest....I really don't know if he is married to any woman or not...ah well.....there is always Settlement Time! Think I will sign up tomorrow to be the settler of that show! Now that should tell you something....me offering to work nights AND stay to settle?!?!?!
Today's other shows built, AFI (www.afireinside.net)
all my goth readers should be perking up. This show is on sale now!
and the comic Ron White....
the Blue Collar Tour guy who always works with a lite cigar in one hand and a glass of alcohol in the other.... on sale Dec 15th
also sent over to Ticketmaster the gospel show God's Trombones....on sale as soon as I can get it checked and all the holds put in place....so some time tomorrow afternoon or Thursday morning at the latest.
so there is a little someth'n someth'n for everyone....
Muslims
Goths
rednecks
and christians
tomorrow I work on the Ebony Fashion Show and a spoken word series hosted by local poet Minton Sparks...
Diversity Diversity......Thy name is TPAC.