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sievep

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Your most interesting "Other" Project
« on: Oct 11, 2008, 01:35 am »
Just out of curiosity, I wanted to poll the Network to see what the craziest thing is that you've ever "stage managed" . . . .

Mine has got to be a circuit party that had aerial performers in it . . .It was a long process, long load in, no tech, fly by the seat of your pants special event fundraiser that was just over the top.  Over 24 hours nonstop.

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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #1 on: Oct 11, 2008, 08:55 am »
Drag shows.
A big splash event for heart medication.
A memorial for a very special nun.

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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #2 on: Oct 11, 2008, 01:39 pm »
Matt -

Was that one show or three?
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #3 on: Oct 11, 2008, 03:04 pm »
My most bizarre show:

Toured a small 4 person show into 34 Woolworth/Safeway stores - did the 25 minute show 5 times a day, packed up, moved to the next store, so on an so forth.
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #4 on: Oct 11, 2008, 07:57 pm »
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Was that one show or three?

Lol, three very separate shows.
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #5 on: Oct 11, 2008, 08:01 pm »
In High School our theatre class took over the library for three days for an all-day series of mini-plays that we adapted from what they were reading in the English classes.  As the sole technician, it became my project to figure out how to use the library as a performance space: work out lighting, a multi-use/purpose set (made out of pieces from our very limited scene shop/basement storage), etc.  It was a very interesting experience.

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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #6 on: Oct 12, 2008, 01:31 pm »
Exotic Erotic Ball multi-stage event
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #7 on: Oct 14, 2008, 09:59 am »
show on a specially decked out bus that went round a free city route 4 hrs a day (a celestial laundry, staffed with angels)
a festival closing ceremony at sunset on a beach when we painted 200 people in blue 'mud'

but the  stand out

a project where 4 men lived in a shop ( once a bank, once a library but usually a shop)window for between 11 and 21 days at a time and just communicated with the people passing by/visiting with them outside by all sorts of creative means from mime onwards. I did it 11 times in 9 countries and it was always wild and always crazy. :)
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #8 on: Dec 01, 2008, 04:38 pm »
An indoor dance program for a company that used live fire as a part of every piece except one!  I call it the crazy awesome dance and fire show.
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #9 on: Dec 01, 2008, 10:52 pm »
My sister's wedding.  It was so much fun!
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #10 on: Dec 02, 2008, 12:37 am »
Quote from: katykat29 on Dec 01, 2008, 04:38 pm
An indoor dance program for a company that used live fire as a part of every piece except one!  I call it the crazy awesome dance and fire show.

I am full of jealousy and envy.  Love dance.  Love fire. 
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #11 on: Dec 06, 2008, 12:16 am »
Tonight I stage manged a film showing of an RV Adventure Video. The pre-show was a husband and wife sing-a-long duo. They sang some interesting* renditions of Christmas tunes and told really bad jokes. Another show tomorrow with a different pre-show act.

*By interesting, I mean off key in addition to some pretty horrible Elvis impersonation attempts.
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #12 on: Dec 07, 2008, 02:11 pm »
When you mentioned the filming - I have done one thing that really turned my head upside down for a day.  We did a professional filming of an original play that we were putting on.  We had to spend the entire day dissecting the show down into scenes that made sense to run together from a filming point of view (i.e. each scene that happened on a particular set piece together in a group) - which was definitely not the normal running order of the show.  It really teaches you how much you know about the show - to be able to do scene after scene totally out of order.

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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #13 on: Dec 12, 2008, 11:08 pm »
A group of dancers improv-ing to a group of improv-ing musicians in an art gallery's performance space. I was SM and operating the light board, and arrived on the night of the performance to find a note asking for 'lighting shifts that indicated major mood changes.'
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Re: Your most interesting "Other" Project
« Reply #14 on: Dec 14, 2008, 06:22 pm »
Toronto Film Festival. By far the best job I've ever had. Way too much fun with a well-oiled machine!
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