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Category Archive: Backstage

Charles Dickens – Sketches of Boz (2000)

One of my dearest, very best friends is Richard Enders. I knew him first as “Mr. Scrooge,” when […]

July 11, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

Personal History: When I Was a Union Stagehand (Part 3)

Independent Theatrical Employees of America was started with a mission to “provide all the good of a stagehands […]

July 5, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

Personal History: When I Was a Union Stagehand (Part 2)

On my first rock show as a union stagehand, I was teamed with an old-timer named Freddie. Freddie […]

July 4, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

Personal History: When I Was a Union Stagehand (Part 1)

When I was 19 I joined the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 337 (Utica), which […]

July 3, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

Sarah and the Playwright

My 14-year-old daughter has a backstage resume like she’s in her 20’s. I don’t know anyone who’s done […]

June 27, 2014 Backstage, Theater

Notes As We Begin The Mikado (June 2014)

I was asked to helm this year’s Gilbert & Sullivan production at The Earlville Opera House back in […]

June 24, 2014 Backstage, Theater

Backstage Stories Vol. 2: Diana Krall, Before She Broke My Heart

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute used to present six consecutive nights of free shows under a giant tent every summer. […]

June 23, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs, Music

Backstage Stories Vol. 1: Chuck Mangione’s Gonna Kick Your Ass

Sometime in the mid-1990’s, renowned flugelhorn player and bandleader Chuck Mangione brought an immense show to the Stanley […]

June 20, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

The Problem with New Hartford’s Performing Arts Center

Once I visited a restaurant with someone who ran his own place. There were any number of things […]

June 6, 2014 Backstage

Angels in America, Production Journal (Walk the Boards Productions)

Lighter’s Block In May 2013 I agreed to do the lighting for a production of Tony Kushner’s Angels […]

April 24, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

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