Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.theater Subject: theatre anecdotes Message-ID: <1984@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 02:36:38 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1984 Posted: Thu Dec 6 02:36:38 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 01:16:54 EST Distribution: net Organization: Plaid Heaven Lines: 25 Hmm... Well, when I was in high school I worked on a few productions in the backstage... All of us wore matching T-shirts, at least until the high school chicano gang decided we were muscling into their turf... (Of course, the gang also went after the band, too... There weren't many rival gangs to terrorize at my high school...). Couple of pranks, more than anecdotes. One day we tied one of our fellow stage crew onto a bar and flew him into the light rigging just before lunch... He was still up there, hoarse, when we came back, too... Another one of our wonderful crew had this habit of moving curtains and flies by climbing the ropes and unlocking them with his feet to use his weight to move them quicker. Imagine his suprise when he didn't notice that somebody had removed all of the counterweights prior to a dress rehearsal. he got a GOOD view of the ceiling. Of course, it took 6 people an hour and a half to get that turkey back into the roof and weighted again, but it was worth it... chuq (the 43'rd time you do South Pacific, you tend to get into mischief...) -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~