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re: 2 wk turnaround after Godot/Pinter- stagehands must be licking their chops

Posted by: shadowlight 08:59 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: 2 wk turnaround after Godot/Pinter- stagehands must be licking their chops - ryhog 07:48 pm EST 01/16/14
" What's scary is that you seem to assume be oblivious to anything but complications."

I haven't said a word about complications. There are only 12 full days between the time the curtain rings down on one production and rises on another. I don't know how many shows you've loaded in and teched, but that's not a lot of time to load out one show, load in another, install it, tech, rehearse and start previews, no matter what the show.

ANY show will involve overtime during the production process. That is inevitable at a certain point in the process. Stagehands have to be there to work before the actors arrive, and have to stay during the rehearsals. It's a necessity.

It is helpful that the actors have done the show elsewhere, but they haven't done it on that stage with that set - and the stagehands haven't done it at all.

No matter how you look at it, this is a very tight turnaround. To say otherwise betrays a lack of knowledge of how the production process works on Broadway.


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