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Friday, November 24, 2006
A Look Backstage
The New York Sun: "For a crew of about 30 carpenters, electricians, and prop men, the task comes about weekly. Each Saturday, the Met puts on one opera in the afternoon and a different one in the evening."
4 comments:
Anonymous
said...
The MET may consider to sell tickets for this "Shows-Change" and to give its income to these stagehands to buy pizza as a Bonus!
This article gives an interesting view on how it is to not know about the workings of a backstage area. I've been around theater since I was 3, so I have never really understood how others couldn't get the simple inner workings of what goes on backstage. The article really lets you step out of the theater mindset in order to be in a way retaught what goes on behind the magical world of the theater which the audience usually only sees. -boyce
This sounds like summer stock on speed! That is quite an undertaking, and I can only imagine the amount of planning that goes into something like that. I was always amazed on touring shows how well designed everything was in order to allow to to be put together, taken apart, and packed into a truck. While it sounds cool, I think it is a bit more stress that I would like to encounter on a daily basis.
4 comments:
The MET may consider to sell tickets for this "Shows-Change" and to give its income to these stagehands to buy pizza as a Bonus!
yilin
This article gives an interesting view on how it is to not know about the workings of a backstage area. I've been around theater since I was 3, so I have never really understood how others couldn't get the simple inner workings of what goes on backstage. The article really lets you step out of the theater mindset in order to be in a way retaught what goes on behind the magical world of the theater which the audience usually only sees.
-boyce
i think this is so cool and totoaly agree with yilin. i would love to spend a day shadowing a stagehand to see how this all goes on in real time.
This sounds like summer stock on speed! That is quite an undertaking, and I can only imagine the amount of planning that goes into something like that. I was always amazed on touring shows how well designed everything was in order to allow to to be put together, taken apart, and packed into a truck. While it sounds cool, I think it is a bit more stress that I would like to encounter on a daily basis.
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