[theater] The sinking feeling when you spend hours auditioning people and additional hours carefully constructing your cast list to have three people back out.

I actually have no idea what we're gonna do because we pretty much cast everyone we could.

oh no

I mean it happens

but it's a lot

when you don't have a lot of pull to begin with

Make them sign in blood with one hand on a grimoire so they don’t dare back out!

Well I've backed out of things!

auditioning isn't a commitment. but it makes things dicey ugh

Yeah, it totally sucks. Those chickenshits. Bleh. But it's one thing to audition and another thing to actually be performing in front of hundreds of people.

Oh I always audition when I can because it's a chance to practice and to be seen. It's really fine -- but we have a shallow bench