DUH.

Then again, to paraphrase Mike Daisey, the greatest minds in business are not drawn to the American theater.

At a festival years ago the cash box
went missing. It was sitting on the grass next to the check in table in the booth/tent. Someone hooked it from the outside of the tent, just a few feet away and pulled it over - which was not noticed for about ten minutes amid all the chatter and blah blah. Good bye cash box.

The loss was several thousand as people were paying registration fees and table/booth rentals.

Always watch the money carefully and with good sense. Thieves abound. Junkies and crack heads compound the problem and have no scruples when they need money.... which is all the time.

That said, "a few hundred dollars" ought to be something the local community can help make up. I don't see much theater here (Because I am lazy? Uninspired? Not fucking an actor right now?) but I value it as an art form. So I'll be sending a check to WET today for $50.

If this Blog community cannot scrounge up enough between all of us to cover this sad situation, then we deserve to be subjected to nothing but repeated stagings of Making Porn, featuring hookers from Craigslist, and all-Downs Syndrome casts of Our Town.

Dig deep, people.

we deserve. we deserve. who the fuck really cares?

And yes, it was inexcuseable for the box office person to leave the cash unattended, but you know what? People make mistakes, even people like the sanctimonious asshat who wrote comment #1. Besides, it's not like you can "fire" the box office person, because they were most likely a volunteer.

And bless you, Jubilation. Your heart is certainly in the right place, even if you couldn't resist the snarkage. I don't think I can afford $50 at the moment, but I can certainly toss in $25.

I've seen and heard of seemingly-trustworthy people stealing from a company. Was anyone else with desk boy at the time?

Watch your six people. Bush's economy isn't going to get any better.

@8: Yes, COMTE, a couple hundred is a light night in walk-ups but, man, it might could suck for WET -- or any of the small theaters in town. I do feel for them. And people do make mistakes; thank you for saying that. I admit that I was pretty boggled that someone let this happen at all, though. It's a training issue.

@9: It's possibly one of the people working on the show, but highly unlikely as I believe they're all company members who know better than to shit on their own theater. These are good people, guys. It's more likely to be a patron if it was someone from inside the theater.