On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
Tell us your stories of life on the stage.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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Far too manyI'll think of more over the week
the one that immediately springs to mind is that we were working on the London Mayor elections coverage and managed to convince the guy putting the results on the big screen that he had spelled 'Yes' wrong.
To give credit to him we had all been awake for 40+ hours and it was probably the 50th time he had typed 'Yes' that hour.
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Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 13:10,
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