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cprted

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Re: SMs in media?
« Reply #60 on: Apr 17, 2010, 02:57 pm »
"Sing Faster" is on YouTube, pretty amusing and some fantastic backstage views of the Met.

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Re: SMs in media?
« Reply #61 on: Apr 17, 2010, 05:20 pm »
"Sing Faster" is on YouTube, pretty amusing and some fantastic backstage views of the Met.

Sing Faster is great, but its San Francisco Opera, not the Met.

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« Reply #62 on: Apr 17, 2010, 08:19 pm »
"Sing Faster" is on YouTube, pretty amusing and some fantastic backstage views of the Met.

Sing Faster is great, but its San Francisco Opera, not the Met.
I stand corrected.  Still, very impressive.

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« Reply #63 on: Apr 17, 2010, 11:04 pm »
Sing Faster is also available from Netflix...
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Re: SMs in media?
« Reply #64 on: Apr 18, 2010, 12:56 pm »
We actually watched portions of "Sing Faster" in my SM class in college.  While the documentary portion was really great, and informational, I personally,  adored the sequence at the end with the time lapse of all performances/changeovers.
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Re: SMs in media?
« Reply #65 on: Apr 24, 2010, 12:41 pm »
I ran across another one last night.  Old old old!  There was a 1945 movie called "The Phantom of 42nd Street."  Murders in a  theatre, newspaper theatre critic trying to solve them.  There's quite a few backstage scenes, including a couple chats with the stage manager and.... well I won't spoil the mystery.
Very interesting for a take on theatre in the 40s, anyway.
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« Reply #66 on: May 17, 2010, 01:42 pm »
anybody remember All That?

The Stage Manager had quite  A LOT of screen time....at least 15 seconds every show.  And his lines usually consisted of a panicked, "FIVE minutes everyone!  You h ave to be onstage in FIVE minutes!" 

The cast would also play just too many jokes on him.  But all in good fun.