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Sunday, November 05, 2023

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating articles of the past week:

Best Wicked Behind-The-Scenes Facts

www.buzzfeed.com: First, the process for painting actors green for Elphaba in Wicked is so streamlined now, it only takes roughly 20–30 minutes. Chromacake in Landscape Green by MAC is what is used for the green base, and it's applied using a paintbrush and a mixture of the Chromacake and water.

Empowering accessibility in live events

TPi: Touring the European continent can be challenging at the best of times and with a greater focus on cultivating accessible spaces for the live events industry, Marisa Rinchiuso, who has a deteriorative neuromuscular disease, muscular dystrophy, recently embarked on her first experience on the road, assuming the role of Assistant Stage Manager on the European leg of The Weeknd’s latest stadium tour.

8 Tips for Painting with a Textured Roller

Family Handyman: A fresh lick of paint is an easy, economical way to give your tired walls a makeover. You can achieve a trendy, unique, textured finish while also economically covering imperfections in your older homes plastered walls. Fortunately, you don’t have to stock up on sponges or rely on pros using a trowel or sprayer to achieve the finish you want. You can DIY!

Light Up Night 2023: Everything you need to know this year

nextpittsburgh.com: Taking apt advantage of Pittsburgh’s first frosty morning of the season, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership announced the city’s first scheduled dose of holiday cheer earlier today: the 62nd annual Light Up Night.

Music Reading for Drama Technicians

SoundGirls.org: This month’s blog will go over some basic music theory concepts that I have found useful in my work as a musical theatre mixer. Full credit for the title goes to Professor Thomas W. Douglas of Carnegie Mellon University, who taught a class by that name when I was an undergrad. I know that not everyone working in theatrical sound has a formal music education (and I am not suggesting that it’s a requirement) but I think that being able to understand what is going on in a score, follow along in the music, and in some cases, line-by-line mix from the score, are good skills for anyone in this field to have.

 

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