CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, March 21, 2023

'Usher Usher!': What's It Like to Be a Broadway Usher

Playbill: A theatre is a place of deception. Its specialty is making things look easy. To the audience, the experience is effortless: come in, sit, and lose yourself in a show for a while. That is the magic of it. If a show didn’t seem real, it would lose its power. Dozens of unseen hands conspire to achieve this illusion: costume designers, set designers, stagehands, stage managers, house managers. Then there are the ushers—who also show up night after night.

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