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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / PEOPLE: Humorous story I had to share (cameras in the audience)
« on: Mar 29, 2008, 03:05 pm »
So, I'm SMing A Midsummer Night's Dream at my school and we're closing tonight - but last nights events made my day!
We're about 3/4 of the way through our Part 1 which was in Act III, when my actor playing Puck comes to me and says, "There's a guy front row center who has a camera, can I play with him?" Since the director loves the actors to have interaction with the audience, I said sure since he does stuff with the audience anyways at that point. So, I'm sitting there waiting for what he's going to do. He runs on to say that Helena is coming and he walks straight up to the guy, grabs the camera holds it in the air and says "Lord, what fools these mortals be" and throws it back at him and runs up into the big tree that is our set. It was the funniest thing. Apparently the man was an Uncle of one of the actors and was filming the show the whole time. At Intermission, the House Managers had asked him to put the camera away, but it apparently came back out and Flute/Thisby told him to put it away in Act II. It was distracting them so much the actors were getting upset. But that moment of Puck's made my night!
Thought I would share
We're about 3/4 of the way through our Part 1 which was in Act III, when my actor playing Puck comes to me and says, "There's a guy front row center who has a camera, can I play with him?" Since the director loves the actors to have interaction with the audience, I said sure since he does stuff with the audience anyways at that point. So, I'm sitting there waiting for what he's going to do. He runs on to say that Helena is coming and he walks straight up to the guy, grabs the camera holds it in the air and says "Lord, what fools these mortals be" and throws it back at him and runs up into the big tree that is our set. It was the funniest thing. Apparently the man was an Uncle of one of the actors and was filming the show the whole time. At Intermission, the House Managers had asked him to put the camera away, but it apparently came back out and Flute/Thisby told him to put it away in Act II. It was distracting them so much the actors were getting upset. But that moment of Puck's made my night!
Thought I would share