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Thursday, February 25, 2016
These Photos Show How Fucking Hard It Is To Put On A Theatre Show
www.buzzfeed.com: In the lead up to opening night, set builder Boaz Shemesh took his iPhone behind the scenes to reveal how he made the stage look like a British country estate from 1809, as well as when the time jumps to the 1990s.
17 comments:
Lucy Scherrer
said...
The main thing that stood out to me about this article wasn't the subject matter or even the gorgeous pictures, but the fact that it is, of all things, a Buzzfeed article. Everything from the ridiculous title that sounded like it was written by a 14 year old to the actual quality of the writing itself was both so clearly Buzzfeed-made but also in striking contrast to the kinds of articles that are usually on this blog. It was so strange to see a platform usually used for amusing pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, screenshots of tumblr jokes, and gifs from Pitch Perfect used instead for something that I am surrounded by 24/7 in an academic environment. It was like if a CS major accidentally stumbled upon a Buzzfeed article about the top ten most interesting programming languages or something. However, as much as I rag on Buzzfeed, it was a nice break from the usual style of the articles. Plus, the progress pictures of the set were stunning. Finally, if nothing else it did show me how someone who doesn't have much/any experience with technical theater views our work.
I think its incredibly interesting that so many people have absolutely no idea that sets dont just magically pop up on stage. It really is such a hidden and thankless art form and while it sucks that so many peoples jobs are pretty much invisible to the masses, an article like this (on a popular website like BuzzFeed) does give me hope that audiences at the end of the show will someday be clapping for not only the performers on stage but the designers and technicians as well. It sounds a bit cheesy, but something like this really does help to increase the visibility of the technicians side of this art form. Even those photos don't really represent the amount of hard work that goes into putting on a show. I'm constantly amazed everyday how hard it really is to put a production up on stage, and I'm getting a degree in it.
The thing with this Buzzfeed article is that it is introducing this world of scenic construction to the general masses, who sometimes are completely unaware of what goes into the building of the world on stage. While somethings may have been missed in the article, it was most likely on purpose. I think that something that us as members of the theatrical community forget is that journalism is something that everyone has to understand. It’s similar to how journalists must write about science and other advanced topics. Once you are in the know about the subject, you want to hear someone write about things you are interested on a deeper level, but it’s hard for a journalist to know how popular the article will be and just how much depth it demands. So I guess what the important thing about this article is is that theatre is being broadcasted to a general audience, and people will become more aware of what goes into it.
I like that there is actually a BuzzFeed article about theatre and showing some appreciation to some of the hard work that goes into putting on a production. A lot of work goes into building a set in such a short amount of time. There is not a lot of recognition for the backstage side of theatre most of the time. Most of the focus is on the actors and their work. The set just magically appears onstage and all the other elements just happen during tech week. Even though this article does not really go in depth of the process of building a set because it is just a group of pictures with small captions, it is better than not showing the process at all. It makes the building of a set look artsy or simple, which it is not at all. Hopefully there will be more articles about the technical side of theatre on BuzzFeed more often.
I am so glad that this article exists. And that it is on a website as heavily trafficked as Buzzfeed. So many people are completely unaware of how much hard work goes into theatre. Some people will recognize that the actors are working really hard by performing eight times a week, but very rarely does the actual construction of the design elements of the show get recognized. People seem to think that these sets just happen. They just appear around the actors during rehearsal. No one thinks about the creation of the world. I remember when I was telling people what I was going to major in, they would just say "Oh so like you make costumes?" in response to "theatre design and production." Since I was very very vaguely considering scenic design at that point, I would say "You know how when you see a play, there's a set on the stage? It's the creation of that." This would blow their minds. I am so glad that Buzzfeed made this article about the build of a set. It is very fucking hard to put on a "theatre show," and I am glad Buzzfeed is bringing that to people's attention.
This is an amazing article. It’s great to see a website so frequented as Buzzfeed have an article showing how hard it is to put on a theatrical production- and not sugar coating it. What we do is really hard and takes a long time and most people don't even think about the work that had to be put in or else don’t think it is that much. Not only do these pictures show how much work there is, but they are also very artistic which ads a certain credibility to them- this is a real job that takes a lot of people and space to put in. I also really like the last picture that talks about how his favorite spot to watch the show is from the wings because it doesn't invalidate the crew’s job- they aren't just actors who didn't made it, they are people who specifically choose this job because they love it.
I like how Buzzfeed is starting to make some articles about theater. I don’t think I would go to them for actual theater news but it seems like a great way to spread some knowledge of our world. In that aspect particularly I think this article does a much better job than the last Buzzfeed theater article that was on here. That one was just a list of pictures looking out on the audience from the stage, and as beautiful as those theaters looked the pictures didn’t really do anything to bring outsiders into the world of creating a show. This isn’t the most detailed explanation of what goes on in a shop but that level of detail would probably drive away someone new to this world. The way this was written seems like the perfect way to spark interest in new people. Also on a side note, the model set they showed was amazing.
I really enjoyed this article; not so much for the words and captions, but for the photographs that were such a great representation of the building process. It's very different to say "the molding for the walls are being done" than to actually see it happen. This article also makes me happy because it means that more and more people are becoming more concerned with the production process for theatre as opposed to the norm in keeping the stars and actors in the spotlight and having the technical team blurred out. To actually think of it, I've never really visually analyzed the set throughout the build to view such detail. These pictures really do the job justice. I personally know from experience from working on crew in the shop and know the amount of precision that it takes to have such a beautifully detailed product. I'm glad this article highlights it enough to show-off all the hard work that goes into theatre.
Like Shemesh, my favorite view from which to watch a show is always the sidelines. This is the view from which I feel most at one with the world of the play, because when I am watching from this view it is because I am a part of making the show happen. I love being in the house too, don't get me wrong. But from the wings I know that I am one small building block of something great. I'm not just watching a show - I'm watching a show that I got to help make possible, no matter how big or small my part. What Shemesh seems to innately understand is that yes it's a lot of work, yes it's a lot of stuff, and yes it's a lot of time, but you go into the work knowing that. What you don't know, with 100% certainty, is that it will turn out the way you planned. Something can always go wrong. Something can always change. So no matter your end result, watching a world unfold from the same position as you watched it be built is undeniably more gratifying than watching from the house. For me, it is from the wings that I know that all is well, that everything is as it should be. I think Shemesh shares this sentiment. So yes, these photos show that building a show is hard. But for Shemesh, I think they show that it is worth it. And that is why this article is important.
Sigh. Another click bait type article done by Buzzfeed. I always get sort of disappointed when I see things pertaining to the back end of theater being cheapened out by just photographs and not enough text. I feel like this article did have potential to be pretty good and show the muggles of our world that we as theater majors work extremely hard to put on a show. All that this Buzzfeed article did was slap some pretty photos together and use some pretty crappy quotes. I want the meat of the article-- I want to see and read about WHY exactly the photos shown portrayed "how fucking hard it is to put on a theatre show." I don't think that this piece did backstage theater work the amount of justice that it deserves for working day in and day out. Say for example that I was someone who didn't know anything about the backstage functions of theater-- if I came across this article and read it, my reaction would be somewhere along the lines of "Oh, okay. So they build some big things and have lots of paint. Cool!" This is not what I want people to think and expect when they click on an article that is titled "These Photos Show How Fucking Hard It Is To Put On A Theatre Show"; I want people to be absolutely floored and astounded that human hands constructed and put together the set. And also-- this article only showed the scene shop part of theatre when that is so NOT all of the story! It's a big part, no doubt, but damn-- there's so much more to be said about how hard it is to put on theater!!! What a crap article.
This article was pretty disappointing. When I saw the title "These Photos Show How Fucking Hard It Is To Put On A Theater Show" I fell for the click bait, even more when I saw that it was on BuzzFeed. The photos don't really show what goes into making a set, it does not have anything that show what happens before build, like drafts and concept art. They also just show pictures of the physical objects of set pieces during the process not the time that goes into everything. What I find more interesting than the article itself is everyone else's comments on it. Some people feel the same way I do and that it was total click bait and doesn't follow through in proving that theater is hard work. Others thought it was a great article that BuzzFeed came out with and showed its wide audience that theater is not all an easy artistic form.
As many of the other commenters have noted, it’s nice to see a publication such as Buzzfeed giving attention to the often ignored world of technical theatre. Much of the public simply doesn’t think about the many, many hours and details that go into preparation for a show. In some ways that is fine (it is part of the illusion of theatre), but theatre people also deserve respect and need to make careers.
As some other comments have noted such as Annie and Michelle, this article is sort of a cheap-shot. What troubles me about this article is the title and what it’s claiming to portray. Sure, that looks like a considerably detailed set in terms of carpentry and scenic painting, but it’s a unit set. This set certainly isn’t one I’d feel the need to describe with the F-word, to say the least. The photos offer a cool behind-the-scenes view, but don’t offer more than a glimpse into the extensive process that this set must have undergone. It would have been nice for the author to at least tell us how many coats of paint were needed – I think that’d get the point across better than “layers and layers.” How many people? How many man hours? The article also only covers one area of a theatrical production.
Overall, I feel that is article is trying to give an example of a “ton” of effort going into a production, but then doesn’t actually show it. To many readers, they may think “wow, that isn’t actually that much more than I’d expect.” Sure, for those who never considered at all how a set gets onstage, they would have more to take away from this article, but I’d like to think we give audience members more credit than that.
I definitely appreciate how Buzzfeed is acknowledging and introducing people to the existence of work happening backstage. Whenever I tell people I study theatre design, their initial response are always either "so you paint backdrops?" or "there's a job for that?" However, I do think this article is just touching the surface of not only set construction but also just how much work and collaboration between different disciplines it takes to make a show happen. There's just so much more happening, and I hope this article doesn't reinforce the "theatre design=sets" stereotype. It's definitely interesting an refreshing to read an article about what we do from an outside perspective. I think this article is definitely a great start and hopefully big platforms like Buzzfeed will continue and introduce people to the backstage world. Also, there are a lot of "obscure" professions out there that people don't usually think about are very interesting and worth learning about and I'd love to read more and learn more about them too.
These photos are great and the scenery is impressive, from a technical standpoint, it doesn’t seem all that much. Most of the pictures here seem to show (as we’ve been talking about in ScenoFab) a frame with a membrane. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t a lot of work. There is a lot of work that goes into designing, building, painting, and installing the scenery. From the looks of it, the most challenging part of the actual build of this show is that the scenery is large. The painting on the set seems much more involved than the actual construction of it. This is especially the case in looking at where the seams (or lack thereof) are in the set. While there is a lot of detail in the set, all in all, it looks like normal scenery. Looking at the pictures, it is an impressive set. I think the cyclorama (for lack of a better term, if there is one) in the background makes all the difference.
Well I'm really glad that something that gets as many viewers as buzzfeed has chosen to talk about this, even if it's not an article in the times it's still exposure and someone talking about our jobs. I think many of my classmates above are right in talking about how hard it is to do what we do, and as the people who never really get any applause from an audience it's nice to get some from somewhere. I think more than theater is difficult sometimes it is just so long and can be almost unbearable. We've all been in some situation where you've been in rehearsal all day, and you just know that it's not enough, that there is going to have to be more time, so your work bleeds into the night. And that feeling is horrible. However, something that I have realized in my 6 months at CMU is that all that hard work, and time is necessary for any person who really loves what they do, and I think in theater most people just do love it, so even if we aren't happy about it we are all willing to stay the extra hour to make it work. I think that I always thought that that mentality was specific to theater but being at CMU has really taught me that passion is passion regardless of its focus. I'm glad buzzfeed is talking about us, because they're right it is really hard, but I think as professionals it's also important not to lose sight of other people, and how hard they work as well.
At first, I was really excited by this article. I said, "Oooh, cool, what kind of awesome, complicated scenery and costumes and lights are they going to have photos of?" And then I said, "Oh. Of course. This was written for the muggles."
While it is always exciting to see our people gaining recognition on such a high-traffic website, I wish that we had seen something a little less typical to go with the shocking title. 1) This is a fairly basic set. The only difficult parts of recreating the designer's vision here were the size of each piece and the amount of paint treatment. And they didn't even replicate the paint treatment in the model! 2) There is *only* scenery construction. Come on. Let's rename this article from "These Photos Show How Fucking Hard It Is To Put On A Theatre Show" to "These Photos Show the Process of Building a Set." Where is the design process? Every other design category? Hello, costumes, lights, sound, where are you? And if we're going to talk about "putting on" the show, where are the director and stage managers and performers? I think this article was really trying to show the world how hands-on the creation of a show is, but what it did was make it seem as though shows happen when the set pops into place. Even the photos of the set didn't show many people really working on it.
Give me an article about "How Fucking Amazing the People Are Who Put On a Theatre Show" and I'll make it my homepage.
17 comments:
The main thing that stood out to me about this article wasn't the subject matter or even the gorgeous pictures, but the fact that it is, of all things, a Buzzfeed article. Everything from the ridiculous title that sounded like it was written by a 14 year old to the actual quality of the writing itself was both so clearly Buzzfeed-made but also in striking contrast to the kinds of articles that are usually on this blog. It was so strange to see a platform usually used for amusing pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, screenshots of tumblr jokes, and gifs from Pitch Perfect used instead for something that I am surrounded by 24/7 in an academic environment. It was like if a CS major accidentally stumbled upon a Buzzfeed article about the top ten most interesting programming languages or something. However, as much as I rag on Buzzfeed, it was a nice break from the usual style of the articles. Plus, the progress pictures of the set were stunning. Finally, if nothing else it did show me how someone who doesn't have much/any experience with technical theater views our work.
I think its incredibly interesting that so many people have absolutely no idea that sets dont just magically pop up on stage. It really is such a hidden and thankless art form and while it sucks that so many peoples jobs are pretty much invisible to the masses, an article like this (on a popular website like BuzzFeed) does give me hope that audiences at the end of the show will someday be clapping for not only the performers on stage but the designers and technicians as well. It sounds a bit cheesy, but something like this really does help to increase the visibility of the technicians side of this art form. Even those photos don't really represent the amount of hard work that goes into putting on a show. I'm constantly amazed everyday how hard it really is to put a production up on stage, and I'm getting a degree in it.
The thing with this Buzzfeed article is that it is introducing this world of scenic construction to the general masses, who sometimes are completely unaware of what goes into the building of the world on stage. While somethings may have been missed in the article, it was most likely on purpose. I think that something that us as members of the theatrical community forget is that journalism is something that everyone has to understand. It’s similar to how journalists must write about science and other advanced topics. Once you are in the know about the subject, you want to hear someone write about things you are interested on a deeper level, but it’s hard for a journalist to know how popular the article will be and just how much depth it demands. So I guess what the important thing about this article is is that theatre is being broadcasted to a general audience, and people will become more aware of what goes into it.
I like that there is actually a BuzzFeed article about theatre and showing some appreciation to some of the hard work that goes into putting on a production. A lot of work goes into building a set in such a short amount of time. There is not a lot of recognition for the backstage side of theatre most of the time. Most of the focus is on the actors and their work. The set just magically appears onstage and all the other elements just happen during tech week. Even though this article does not really go in depth of the process of building a set because it is just a group of pictures with small captions, it is better than not showing the process at all. It makes the building of a set look artsy or simple, which it is not at all. Hopefully there will be more articles about the technical side of theatre on BuzzFeed more often.
I am so glad that this article exists. And that it is on a website as heavily trafficked as Buzzfeed. So many people are completely unaware of how much hard work goes into theatre. Some people will recognize that the actors are working really hard by performing eight times a week, but very rarely does the actual construction of the design elements of the show get recognized. People seem to think that these sets just happen. They just appear around the actors during rehearsal. No one thinks about the creation of the world. I remember when I was telling people what I was going to major in, they would just say "Oh so like you make costumes?" in response to "theatre design and production." Since I was very very vaguely considering scenic design at that point, I would say "You know how when you see a play, there's a set on the stage? It's the creation of that." This would blow their minds. I am so glad that Buzzfeed made this article about the build of a set. It is very fucking hard to put on a "theatre show," and I am glad Buzzfeed is bringing that to people's attention.
This is an amazing article. It’s great to see a website so frequented as Buzzfeed have an article showing how hard it is to put on a theatrical production- and not sugar coating it. What we do is really hard and takes a long time and most people don't even think about the work that had to be put in or else don’t think it is that much. Not only do these pictures show how much work there is, but they are also very artistic which ads a certain credibility to them- this is a real job that takes a lot of people and space to put in. I also really like the last picture that talks about how his favorite spot to watch the show is from the wings because it doesn't invalidate the crew’s job- they aren't just actors who didn't made it, they are people who specifically choose this job because they love it.
I like how Buzzfeed is starting to make some articles about theater. I don’t think I would go to them for actual theater news but it seems like a great way to spread some knowledge of our world. In that aspect particularly I think this article does a much better job than the last Buzzfeed theater article that was on here. That one was just a list of pictures looking out on the audience from the stage, and as beautiful as those theaters looked the pictures didn’t really do anything to bring outsiders into the world of creating a show. This isn’t the most detailed explanation of what goes on in a shop but that level of detail would probably drive away someone new to this world. The way this was written seems like the perfect way to spark interest in new people. Also on a side note, the model set they showed was amazing.
I really enjoyed this article; not so much for the words and captions, but for the photographs that were such a great representation of the building process. It's very different to say "the molding for the walls are being done" than to actually see it happen. This article also makes me happy because it means that more and more people are becoming more concerned with the production process for theatre as opposed to the norm in keeping the stars and actors in the spotlight and having the technical team blurred out. To actually think of it, I've never really visually analyzed the set throughout the build to view such detail. These pictures really do the job justice. I personally know from experience from working on crew in the shop and know the amount of precision that it takes to have such a beautifully detailed product. I'm glad this article highlights it enough to show-off all the hard work that goes into theatre.
Like Shemesh, my favorite view from which to watch a show is always the sidelines. This is the view from which I feel most at one with the world of the play, because when I am watching from this view it is because I am a part of making the show happen. I love being in the house too, don't get me wrong. But from the wings I know that I am one small building block of something great. I'm not just watching a show - I'm watching a show that I got to help make possible, no matter how big or small my part. What Shemesh seems to innately understand is that yes it's a lot of work, yes it's a lot of stuff, and yes it's a lot of time, but you go into the work knowing that. What you don't know, with 100% certainty, is that it will turn out the way you planned. Something can always go wrong. Something can always change. So no matter your end result, watching a world unfold from the same position as you watched it be built is undeniably more gratifying than watching from the house. For me, it is from the wings that I know that all is well, that everything is as it should be. I think Shemesh shares this sentiment. So yes, these photos show that building a show is hard. But for Shemesh, I think they show that it is worth it. And that is why this article is important.
Sigh. Another click bait type article done by Buzzfeed. I always get sort of disappointed when I see things pertaining to the back end of theater being cheapened out by just photographs and not enough text. I feel like this article did have potential to be pretty good and show the muggles of our world that we as theater majors work extremely hard to put on a show. All that this Buzzfeed article did was slap some pretty photos together and use some pretty crappy quotes. I want the meat of the article-- I want to see and read about WHY exactly the photos shown portrayed "how fucking hard it is to put on a theatre show." I don't think that this piece did backstage theater work the amount of justice that it deserves for working day in and day out. Say for example that I was someone who didn't know anything about the backstage functions of theater-- if I came across this article and read it, my reaction would be somewhere along the lines of "Oh, okay. So they build some big things and have lots of paint. Cool!" This is not what I want people to think and expect when they click on an article that is titled "These Photos Show How Fucking Hard It Is To Put On A Theatre Show"; I want people to be absolutely floored and astounded that human hands constructed and put together the set. And also-- this article only showed the scene shop part of theatre when that is so NOT all of the story! It's a big part, no doubt, but damn-- there's so much more to be said about how hard it is to put on theater!!! What a crap article.
This article was pretty disappointing. When I saw the title "These Photos Show How Fucking Hard It Is To Put On A Theater Show" I fell for the click bait, even more when I saw that it was on BuzzFeed. The photos don't really show what goes into making a set, it does not have anything that show what happens before build, like drafts and concept art. They also just show pictures of the physical objects of set pieces during the process not the time that goes into everything. What I find more interesting than the article itself is everyone else's comments on it. Some people feel the same way I do and that it was total click bait and doesn't follow through in proving that theater is hard work. Others thought it was a great article that BuzzFeed came out with and showed its wide audience that theater is not all an easy artistic form.
As many of the other commenters have noted, it’s nice to see a publication such as Buzzfeed giving attention to the often ignored world of technical theatre. Much of the public simply doesn’t think about the many, many hours and details that go into preparation for a show. In some ways that is fine (it is part of the illusion of theatre), but theatre people also deserve respect and need to make careers.
As some other comments have noted such as Annie and Michelle, this article is sort of a cheap-shot. What troubles me about this article is the title and what it’s claiming to portray. Sure, that looks like a considerably detailed set in terms of carpentry and scenic painting, but it’s a unit set. This set certainly isn’t one I’d feel the need to describe with the F-word, to say the least. The photos offer a cool behind-the-scenes view, but don’t offer more than a glimpse into the extensive process that this set must have undergone. It would have been nice for the author to at least tell us how many coats of paint were needed – I think that’d get the point across better than “layers and layers.” How many people? How many man hours? The article also only covers one area of a theatrical production.
Overall, I feel that is article is trying to give an example of a “ton” of effort going into a production, but then doesn’t actually show it. To many readers, they may think “wow, that isn’t actually that much more than I’d expect.” Sure, for those who never considered at all how a set gets onstage, they would have more to take away from this article, but I’d like to think we give audience members more credit than that.
I definitely appreciate how Buzzfeed is acknowledging and introducing people to the existence of work happening backstage. Whenever I tell people I study theatre design, their initial response are always either "so you paint backdrops?" or "there's a job for that?" However, I do think this article is just touching the surface of not only set construction but also just how much work and collaboration between different disciplines it takes to make a show happen. There's just so much more happening, and I hope this article doesn't reinforce the "theatre design=sets" stereotype. It's definitely interesting an refreshing to read an article about what we do from an outside perspective. I think this article is definitely a great start and hopefully big platforms like Buzzfeed will continue and introduce people to the backstage world. Also, there are a lot of "obscure" professions out there that people don't usually think about are very interesting and worth learning about and I'd love to read more and learn more about them too.
These photos are great and the scenery is impressive, from a technical standpoint, it doesn’t seem all that much. Most of the pictures here seem to show (as we’ve been talking about in ScenoFab) a frame with a membrane. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t a lot of work. There is a lot of work that goes into designing, building, painting, and installing the scenery. From the looks of it, the most challenging part of the actual build of this show is that the scenery is large. The painting on the set seems much more involved than the actual construction of it. This is especially the case in looking at where the seams (or lack thereof) are in the set. While there is a lot of detail in the set, all in all, it looks like normal scenery. Looking at the pictures, it is an impressive set. I think the cyclorama (for lack of a better term, if there is one) in the background makes all the difference.
Well I'm really glad that something that gets as many viewers as buzzfeed has chosen to talk about this, even if it's not an article in the times it's still exposure and someone talking about our jobs. I think many of my classmates above are right in talking about how hard it is to do what we do, and as the people who never really get any applause from an audience it's nice to get some from somewhere. I think more than theater is difficult sometimes it is just so long and can be almost unbearable. We've all been in some situation where you've been in rehearsal all day, and you just know that it's not enough, that there is going to have to be more time, so your work bleeds into the night. And that feeling is horrible. However, something that I have realized in my 6 months at CMU is that all that hard work, and time is necessary for any person who really loves what they do, and I think in theater most people just do love it, so even if we aren't happy about it we are all willing to stay the extra hour to make it work. I think that I always thought that that mentality was specific to theater but being at CMU has really taught me that passion is passion regardless of its focus. I'm glad buzzfeed is talking about us, because they're right it is really hard, but I think as professionals it's also important not to lose sight of other people, and how hard they work as well.
At first, I was really excited by this article. I said, "Oooh, cool, what kind of awesome, complicated scenery and costumes and lights are they going to have photos of?" And then I said, "Oh. Of course. This was written for the muggles."
While it is always exciting to see our people gaining recognition on such a high-traffic website, I wish that we had seen something a little less typical to go with the shocking title. 1) This is a fairly basic set. The only difficult parts of recreating the designer's vision here were the size of each piece and the amount of paint treatment. And they didn't even replicate the paint treatment in the model! 2) There is *only* scenery construction. Come on. Let's rename this article from "These Photos Show How Fucking Hard It Is To Put On A Theatre Show" to "These Photos Show the Process of Building a Set." Where is the design process? Every other design category? Hello, costumes, lights, sound, where are you? And if we're going to talk about "putting on" the show, where are the director and stage managers and performers? I think this article was really trying to show the world how hands-on the creation of a show is, but what it did was make it seem as though shows happen when the set pops into place. Even the photos of the set didn't show many people really working on it.
Give me an article about "How Fucking Amazing the People Are Who Put On a Theatre Show" and I'll make it my homepage.
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