Dreydl...Bull...what's the big difference?

[ellenkushner]

OK, this is pretty hilarious: Vital ordered 2 boxes of The Golden Dreydl from Charlesbridge Publishing to sell at the play (The Klezmer Nutcracker is based on the book - which is based on the CD, which is . . . long story). Boxes came. Unfortunately, nobody opened them before we began setting up the first performance, yesterday - so all were suprised to see that we were in possession of 2 boxes of The Golden Bull. Our creative team immediately started thinking of ways we could alter the show to fit the Bull in hand - have Queen of Sheba ride in on Bull instead of camel? Have Chanukah party be a lasso contest instead? (What's yours?)

In the end, we found 2 copies in the office, and Delia sweetly & heroically brought 7 from home, arriving by the end of the the 11:00 show, so we had a nice little pile to sell by the time show #1 ended at noon, and for the 1:00 show, too.

I'd better run down to the basement now and bring up some more for today's shows!

Comments

[natesmomclaire.livejournal.com]

Same thing happened with the ketubah at our wedding. We opened up the box and there was a large photograph of two guys on a camping trip. At first I thought it was some kind of generic ad for the frame store, like the photo that's already there when you buy a small frame. Glad you & Delia had some extras handy, we sure didn't!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Wow. That beats everything.

So did you sign the photo of the 2 guys?

[natesmomclaire.livejournal.com]

Nah, the rabbi remembered we had faxed him the text of the thing when we bought it, so he found the fax in his office and we signed that.

[1crowdedhour.livejournal.com]

Slow burn? More like carpet bombing, as soon as office hours start Monday morning!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Nahh. It's no biggie. It's a tiny theatre; we only sell a few books each show - and it's not like I reap the profits! Slow burn was something else entirely. But thanks!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I hope it went well.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Very well, thanks!

[winterbadger]

Good thing you found the extra copies--I'd hate you to have been struck with plagues for substituting in a golden bovine! ;-)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Excellent point. Phew!! That was a close one!

[negothick.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the time (and I'm not making this up) that the Academy's Bookstore ordered Henry the Forgotten Reindeer instead of Henry IV, Part I (it was before computers, and it came next in the alphabet in their jobber's stocklist).

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything - that came out right through my nose! Thank you. I will treasure the image. (If I were more awake, I'd do a riff on forgetting the reindeer for Agincourt - well, not Agincourt, but whatever miserable field HIV found himself on.....)!