Notes to self #814 - #819

• Do not buy tights which appear to have already been opened. Even if they are the only pair in your size hanging on the rack (TALL!).
  
  
• Make sure you have the correct size tights with you BEFORE arriving at the theater. If not, make sure you have an extra pair.
  
  
• When standing in the bathroom cursing at the tights which will not come up much past your knees . . . make sure your director is not in one of the bathroom stalls. You might frighten her.
  
  
• If you are lacking an extra pair of tights, make sure you have a pair of scissors. Or nail clippers. Use them to cut out the crotch of too-short tights so that you don’t have to walk like a duck all night long.
  
  
• When not onstage, do not make the mistake of sitting down! Sitting down only causes the too-short tights to fall even more.
  
  
• Make sure – of course – that this all happens during a performance, so that the onstage orchestra ALSO gets the pleasure of watching you in the wings as you wrestle with the crapulous tights underneath 20 pounds of skirt. There is just not a graceful way of doing this, especially whilst wearing a torso-bend-preventing corset.