No personal space – packed like sardines, pushed
Hack a loogey - yelling
Quickly strike from a theatre after a performance
English and Chinese on signs in cities
Little storage space underneath busses
Holes in children’s pants for “potty training”
Countdown for traffic lights
Waitresses are given numbers instead of names on tags
Sell meat by full animal appearance.
Uncomfortable with us coming into audience
Giving fruit to show appreciation
Underground crosswalks
Sound volume is LOUD
What they clap at – singing scales, sleeve movement
Picture taking w/ foreigners
Save on electricity – turns power all off
Flowers given at the end of performances
Killer Elevators – impatient people
Very kind and helpful people – run spots, help set-up and strike, bus driver w/ water
Repetitious in performance – theme
Don’t clean restrooms – all else in establishment really nice
From September 2009 to March 2011, I will be posting to my other blog. For those who want to follow my mission experiences in Florida Fort Lauderdale, please go to:
dancetechinservice.blogspot.com
Saturday, June 21, 2008
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Stagehands have astonishing learning curves. It's not unusual for stage crews to have trucks full of unknown scenery arrive at a theatre on Monday, which we need to assemble and understand to open a show we've never seen before... on Tuesday night.
Most people, if confronted with such a task, would flatly say it was impossible.
Stagehands find ways to make it possible. We learn quickly, we draw upon years of experience, skills and training, and (all too often) we drink lots of coffee and work all night.
I've had one longstanding handicap in my career as a stagehand. I don't drink coffee.
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