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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Bows

« on: Jul 27, 2007, 06:21 pm »

I was going to mention that I've seen it done on every Cirque show that I've seen.  However, I've never seen it done anywhere else here in the U.S., except for elementary and middle-school shows.   

Corteo is the only Cirque show I have seen it done. It is definitely not done on the shows in Vegas (the example at Mystere was once in 13 years) or Quidam. I have not seen the other touring shows. I did mention this discussion with my roommate and she mentioned that although the bow on Corteo was cool at first - it was not for long. The crew HATE doing this bow now.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Bows

« on: Jul 19, 2007, 09:15 pm »

It is done on Corteo. I have friends from the original crew - two are my current roommates. They appreciated the gesture. Cirque touring shows, especially Corteo and Quidam (where I worked), are quite technical and run with very small crews. The crew is very much a family and the instinct is to recognize them. I enjoy that they made the nod but felt the crew high fiving across the stage was a bit amateurish.

I have an excellent crew who run an amazing show each night. The only time they have been onstage was for the 6,000th show. The artists stepped into the house and the entire crew stepped out onstage to take a bow. That was nice, but a very special occasion and truly a celebration of the great people that have kept our show around for 13 years. I would certainly not want to do it every night.

I feel fully appreciated in each and every one of our standing ovations even if I am standing behind the audience.

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Employment / Re: Theatre L'Homme Dieu

« on: Jun 22, 2007, 06:40 am »

Hi Sten -

No, L'Homme Dieu was my only Minnesota experience. We did have some great director's that came up from Mixed Blood and Guthrie and some of our alumni did settle in the twin cities but I never had a chance to make it back. - Dani

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Employment / Re: Theatre L'Homme Dieu

« on: Jun 15, 2007, 01:20 pm »

Hello -

I just joined this board and see this post is from a while ago. Did you take the job?

I worked there as an ASM many, many moons ago - about 15 years - so I am sure many things have changed. At the time the theater was the summer stock for The University of Akron operating under an Equity guest artist contract. It was a great summer. We worked very hard and had a lot of fun. Alexandria is a small town. We took a few road trips to St. Cloud and two big trips to the twin cities to see the work going on there. I had the chance to work with many up and coming directors and experimental directors who really widened my horizons.  I thoroughly enjoyed my summer in the land of 10,000 lakes..and 10,000,000 million mosquitos. - Dani

PS - if the costume shop is still there you may even find my name signed somewhere in the rafters.