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.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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I just remembered this one and it's splendid (though not technically on a stage)right, not me but me dad. I would have never worked this one.
Colonel Qadaffi was hosting the Africa National Congress. So far on this job, he'd been nothing but bonkers,as you'd expect. He even demanded live footage of his daughter being bombed. Insane.
Anyway, the show involved a huge projection onto a waterfall opposite a citadel. Just as all the dignataries have sat down and the show's about to begin, in Back to the Future stylee, two parts of a cable unclip. Right where Mr Doolally himself is sitting. My friend steps up tot he job, only he's wearing shorts. Now, you can't be showing your western infidel knees in front of Mr Qadaffi. So my friend somehow manages to convince a large, AK47 carrying guard to give him his trousers. He then, due to the fact the dignitaries are all on a balcony overlooking a crowd, has to crawl through Quadaffi's legs to put the two parts together again, just in time for the show to start.
Completely true.
(, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 13:53, Reply)
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