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librarian
 Post subject: Funny backstage phrases
PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 8:15 pm 
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You've heard them, I'm sure. Today I was watching an archive tape that contained, above the music, all the backstage conversation and calls by the stage manager, a video of Giselle. So where Giselle at one point in Act Two is leaned over the side of the stage to drop some flowers to Albrecht, a voice just before had said something to the effect of "Warning on the Tilt-A-Wili!"

Any similar memories?
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Stuart Sweeney
 Post subject: Re: Funny backstage phrases
PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:12 pm 
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On a parallel path, here is the link to a topic which somehow manages to combine comments about lighting with jokes about viola players and other so-called musicians. Viola players have it hard!

http://forum.criticaldance.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000034
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salzberg
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:26 pm 
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A Swan Lake stage manager was once heard to call, "Cue the duck."

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LMCtech
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 7:49 pm 
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When on tour with the Opera and performing "Carmen", by the end of the run (60+ performances over 3 months), the stage manager would call the last act to stage by saying, "OK, let's kill this chick."
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 1:48 pm 
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The windmill in Don Q being referred to as the Wheel of Fortune
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