On Broadway, in Late Night Comic, two pieces of scenery were supposed to mesh at center stage.
they didn't.
it was more like the Titanic meeting the iceberg.
Off-off Broadway i stage managed a show that's first cue was house to black/stage lights out--after which the actors would come on stage.
But someone had turned on a set of lights from a different switch. Every staff member came into the booth and tried every switch and dimmer for two minutes, till the person who had turned on the auxiliary lights came in. We went to black...and I told the lighting person take a deep breath, I'll go out and explain that we had technical difficulties and we'd have to start over, just bring up the lights.
She did. But the actors had gone on stage when the lights were out, and we were two light cues behind. |
