1.4.01 – what about bob?

i’m in the middle of tech, so posts will be scarce until the show opens on the 10th. on tuesday, while showing me around the theatre, hannah unlocked the room where we store props and said, “that’s bob,” and pointed to an ashtray, the kind that stands about three feet high. no, the ashtray isn’t named bob, the ashtray contains bob. apparently, bob (former studio employee) died of lung cancer, and his dying wish was that his cremated remains go into an ashtray and that they would live on in the theatre’s prop storage room. bob gets to go onstage, ashtray and all, for the final performance of each show. i’m not making this up. there’s a dead guy in my props storage room. it’s weird at first, but you get used to it pretty quickly. i find myself saying things like,”oh, can you store the shotgun behind bob?” or “bob’s in the way, can you move him over to that corner?”