Some old Pisay batches had a reunion concert thing recently. It was an interesting sight, not that I haven't seen a bunch of old Pisay graduates do some musical numbers in a concert. Last year, I performed with Himig Agham in another similar concert. This time though I was something else for this concert. I'm making it sound so dramatic the way I'm going to say it, but anyway, this time, I was an usher for the event. Joe kinda persuaded me into joining and being an usher for the event, along with him, Sam, Gaby, Nico, Cam, and lots of other people.
The day before the event, we had "practice" by going to the venue, PETA Theatre Center, which is around 5 minutes away from my house. What was really fun was going there, since we fit around 9 people in a little Rav4 by lots of "kandong" and shared seats. After a few awkward silences and noisy comments, we got to the actual venue.
I guess practice also means taking a look around the place. The actual theatre where the concert was going to be held looked pretty cool and modern. There's this small stage in the middle of a bunch of chairs, but what was unique was the second floor of seats. It seemed really close, even though it was on a different floor. You have to see it for yourself.
What I found kinda strange was that ushers really can't practice since, well, there's nobody to practice on. I mean, what does an usher do? He/she leads people to seats and looks at their tickets. Obviously, on the day before the actual concert, no one aside from the people who were practicing were there. So yeah.
The next day was the real thing. At the first few parts of the concert, I was ushering people into their seats inside the theatre, but later on, Gaby and I switch roles and I became the ticket boy for majority of the night. It felt really lonely being the ticket boy. I was left behind, alone to take care of the tickets and check the people who were coming into the concert hall. At one point though, doing this repetitive action of taking tickets and ripping them gave me a sense of purpose for the night. It made me feel important. In some strange little way, it made me feel like I was important, even if I was alone and lonely, I had to do my job to help..oh who am I kidding. I was just bored and lonely that I got delusional after a while. But still, my job still felt kinda important and I'm glad that I was able to experience being, well, an usher/ticketboy person.
The day before the event, we had "practice" by going to the venue, PETA Theatre Center, which is around 5 minutes away from my house. What was really fun was going there, since we fit around 9 people in a little Rav4 by lots of "kandong" and shared seats. After a few awkward silences and noisy comments, we got to the actual venue.
I guess practice also means taking a look around the place. The actual theatre where the concert was going to be held looked pretty cool and modern. There's this small stage in the middle of a bunch of chairs, but what was unique was the second floor of seats. It seemed really close, even though it was on a different floor. You have to see it for yourself.
What I found kinda strange was that ushers really can't practice since, well, there's nobody to practice on. I mean, what does an usher do? He/she leads people to seats and looks at their tickets. Obviously, on the day before the actual concert, no one aside from the people who were practicing were there. So yeah.
The next day was the real thing. At the first few parts of the concert, I was ushering people into their seats inside the theatre, but later on, Gaby and I switch roles and I became the ticket boy for majority of the night. It felt really lonely being the ticket boy. I was left behind, alone to take care of the tickets and check the people who were coming into the concert hall. At one point though, doing this repetitive action of taking tickets and ripping them gave me a sense of purpose for the night. It made me feel important. In some strange little way, it made me feel like I was important, even if I was alone and lonely, I had to do my job to help..oh who am I kidding. I was just bored and lonely that I got delusional after a while. But still, my job still felt kinda important and I'm glad that I was able to experience being, well, an usher/ticketboy person.
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