Wednesday, July 09, 2014
My Crew
Michael Kaiser: If you ask me who I will miss when I leave the Kennedy Center next month I can give a list of staff, musicians and board members who have been great colleagues and friends. But I know I will see most of them at performances and events in the years to come. I will miss collaborating with them but they will not evaporate from my life.
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Going into tech hopefully for a career is hard mainly because at my school all the tech students are mistreated and misunderstood. But by reading this article and seeing that someone out there recognizes the effort that people not on stage but behind the stage do it rewarding. I think in the business the people that do tech get forgotten because no one knows them during the day they normal people and not stars because they are in the shadows and not seen. So for the person from the Kennedy Theater to write and talk about her crew is rewarding even though I wasn’t a part of it. I feel that it is because some day I want to do that. All in the article they talk about how they crew was interested in everything they did I think that is important because you have to love what you do to stick with it. Things change and not everything is recognized but when that one time you are it changes everything in your life.
Lyla Bartman
This is great. In high school theater there is this ongoing feud between the production team and the performers that teaches the two to disrespect each others, and preach about each other incompetence. A lot of that can be attributed to improper education of each other’s jobs, but regardless it is futile and unprofessional. The reality is that theatre is collaboration no matter what level you are on, and the two groups need each other, and therefore should respect each other. I presume that the higher you get in the professional theatre world the better the more respect is given. This author is a prime example of someone who both acknowledges and respects how important the crew is. Enlightenment is the only real way to spread some of this love across the theatre world. Crew wants the show to be successful just as much as anyone else in the production.
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