FFJournal.net: It takes serious manpower to design and construct the elaborate backdrops and staging that performers use while on tour. Whether it features giant statues, pyrotechnics or choreographed lighting, the stage it all sits upon is crucial to each show’s success. These spectacles require armies of behind-the-scenes workers who provide painstaking attention to detail for each apparatus, helping to enthrall audiences.
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I saw the article tagline I just assumed the article was about TAIT Towers. I was not disappointed. TAIT is clearly the leading fabricator of all touring concerts and it is pretty cool to get an inside look at how the operation is run. I knew that TAIT was not a typical scene shop but I was surprised reading this article by how much they are not a scene shop. This is an unfair generalization, but typically a scene shop says “close enough” with 1/16” tolerances. TAIT, being described as a machine shop, clearly does not take tolerances that big. I think it would be really cool to work in a shop like that to see a new side of set fabrication but I wonder if other shops at that level have a similar mindset of if it the material they are using and the enormous budgets that allow them to produce such fine and precise work.
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