Just bumped out

Did I mention the can of purple paint that was upside down in the props box?
Did I mention it was leaking?

Prick nearly had a hernia. Ran around like a chook with its head cut off looking for someone to blame.

I just got a bucket of water and some rags and cleaned everything up.
We had a show do. Make it happen crew.

Did I mention the flats we assembled wrong side to stage front under instruction from wank manager, who then tried to blame the Ass stage manager who is a very competent young lass and wasn't in the theater at the time?

Did I mention the Ass stage manager standing OP flashing her boobies at one of the principals whilst he was center stage singing?

That was good value!

I was once a roady for George Thoroughgood one summer. He was cool but some of his band memberes and the key grip were bags of douche who treated me like **** because I was a "tangential member" who was in grad school and wasnt so impressed by the stage bug. I think show business imparts a certain super importance of self to all who come in contact, if theyre not careful.

I lasted for about 3 weeks when I threatened to stick the drummers sticks up his ass. So Id reccomend a less direct approach if you plan this as a longer term pursuit.

"Barber of Seville" is one of the few operas or chorale pices I actually like, along with Carmena Burana and the Beethovens 9th chorale.

I never even liked Rock Opera, it just went on and on and on, just like Irish folk music.

Ah, the artistic temperment.

Charming.

Jigsaw puzzel


Getting it together


About now we realise the set is reversed



The ashole stage manager being clear about occ health and safety.


I dug 14 post holes for a fence during the day then went to theater to finish off the set.


The lovely M and purple paint!


Don Basilio and me.





Complete set.


Director Hugh had a number 1 worldwide hit Concrete and Clay as the drummer with unit 4 + 2.

3rd song on this vid
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DeJF_SOc9YY

Cool!



(I love when you post these tales .... and pix)

The song I mentioned above (Concrete and Clay) is actually the 4th on the vid.


Thanks ehbeth.

I like your stories to.

I enjoyed this too.








In the seventies, I lived in an old lodge in which we once shared our gallery with a theater group. I ended up marrying the playwright. But not all was copacetic during the theater days. For one thing, a box of my family treasures went missing from my storage loft area. I think it was the director-on-cocaine...

DadPad
DadPad, I love the set background---who is the set designer? Your photos are so naturally wonderful.

I have a watercolor by Alexandre Benois, who with partner Marc Chagall, designed the stage sets for the Ballets Russes in Paris.

You've probably heard of people finding valuable things in "dumps". Well, it's true. This is the amazing story of how I came to possess a painting by a famous artist. It is a small (8" x 12") watercolor painted in 1917 of a Russian church courtyard. It is in perfect condition. It also has a handwritten Christmas greeting to a friend below it, which makes it even more valuable. I wish I knew to whom the greeting was written---and would love to know who took it to the dump in the first place without realizing its historic and monetary value.

My then husband could never take a load of our junk to the dump without bringing something home that he found there. This time, I pleaded that he come home empty handed because he usually found nothing I wanted to keep. This time, he found a small watercolor in a cheap "dime-store" frame. He brought the frame home because he though I could use it for some of my paintings that were stored around the house. Well, the frame was junk, but I was attracted to the watercolor. I studied it and then put it away. Eventually, I became interested enough that I went to the library to try to learn more about Alexander Benois. The librarian couldn't find much except that he was a Russian painter who also painted in France.

I matted and reframed the painting, and loaned it to my Aunt to hang in her home because she liked it. The only condition of the loan was that I could retrieve the painting when I wanted it and that it had to be hung in a place not exposed to the sun for fear of fading. Years later, after my Uncle's death, we decided that I should retrieve the painting and I brought it home. I then began to search seriously for more information about Alexander Benois. When I got my computer and got on the Internet, I struck historic gold. It turned out that Benois was one of Russia's foremost painters of the 20th century. My painting was done in Russia, where there is a Benois Wing of the Russian Museum in Moscow.

Born Alexandre Nikolaevich Benois in 1870 (and died in 1960 in Paris) Benois was not only a famous artist, he was an art historian and writer, stage, set and costume designer and librettist. Perhaps Benois is best known in the western world for his partnership with Marc Chagall working for Diaghilev designing the stage sets and costumes for the Ballet Russe in Paris. But that is only one small part of Benois' long art career.

If you want to learn more about Alexander Benois, just enter his name in "keyword" and you will find a lot of information. I also found a newly published book "Theater of Reason / Theater of Desire, the Art of Alexander Benois and Leon Bakst" which has wonderful color photos of much of his work and details of his life and career.

So, friends, one never knows what gem one might find in a dump if one is careful and curious.

BBB

This is my painting:

http://hometown.aol.com/butrflynet/Bumblebee3.html

This is my favorite Alexander Benois painting:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:X0NcG9Has3QJ:www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/benois.html+Alexander+Benois+paintings&hl=en&start=2&ie=UTF-8

More Benois paintings and Ballet Russe stage sets:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:9JBqtDEkOJcJ:dl.lib.brown.edu:8080/exist/mjp/plookup.xq%3Fid%3DBenoisAlexandre+Alexandre+Benois+paintings+and+stage+sets&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

The Benois Family Museum:
http://www.peterhof.org/english/museums/benois/

The Russian Museum contains the Benois Wing established by Alexander Benois.

Re: DadPad


Set designed by Anna Cordingley, who (amongst many other credits) was a design assistant for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Melbourne commonwealth games. she has many national and some international credits to her name.

The set is degined especially for regional theatre where stages tend to be small and staging equipment can be less than desirable.
It rotates on wheels and the wings fold in and out. It worked perfectly!

Bumblebee what a wonderful painting