Child wrangling on broadway
Child wrangling on broadway
JPune
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
JerseyScoundrel
Leading Actor Joined: 1/26/06
#2re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/1/06 at 12:48amYou have to know producers. Thats the catch.
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Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#3re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/1/06 at 12:48amWhat is child wrangling. Isn't it the person who keeps the kids quiet backstage at big shows involving kids? And they have to sit in the playroom with all the toys and stuff?
#4re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/1/06 at 12:49amPretty much. Miss Saigon (B'way and tours) actually credited a "Tam wrangler" in the playbill. :)
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JerseyScoundrel
Leading Actor Joined: 1/26/06
#5re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/3/06 at 9:36pmVery funny! There not that young
"This is a stupid story. It never stops. But we keep making lemonade! We're opening the biggest f***ing lemonade stand you ever saw!"
-Walter Bobbie after a long day of Sweet Charity Rehersals
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PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/3/06 at 9:53pmThere used to be a terrible child wrangler at Hairspray. But she was let go not too long ago because she was supposedly horrible to the actor playing Little Inez. Now, they cast Inez as a youthful looking sixteen year old or older so as to avoid requiring a backstage babysitter.
#7re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/3/06 at 9:58pmThe Inez in Las Vegas was not very Little. She was maybe 25 years old and looked it!
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#8re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/3/06 at 9:58pmNot that young?! The Tams were little girls and boys between 4 and 6 years old.
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Bdwy24
Leading Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#9re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/4/06 at 12:52amA child wrangler is a Stage Manager. You make sure the kids are alright during the performance. You take them to their press apearances and all that good stuff.
PJ
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Bdwy24
Leading Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#11re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/4/06 at 1:55amI was led to believe that you must join the union to do this. Making you a SM (although you dont call the show).
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#12re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/4/06 at 1:57ami really doubt she was let go because she was bad...I certainly never heard that particular rumor. Its probably far more likely that she was let go because they had tried an adult Inez on the tour, figured it worked and decided paying one adult was easier and cheaper than paying a child and their keeper.
#13re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/4/06 at 2:31amYes -- a child wrangler is in charge of the kids and they stay in the playroom with them. They can do anything from helping the kids with lines, blocking, taking notes for their scripts, cleaning up after kids, taking notes on if a kid's prop or costume breaks/wrips for the custume suspervisor ... they also lead the kids to the wings ... and also, they do stuff like the press conferences or whatever with the kids.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#14re: Child wrangling on broadway
Posted: 6/4/06 at 6:50amIn film the "wrangler" is often a teacher or "nanny" type w experience in manageing and being RESPONSIBLE for young and (not so young ) performers. Also need to be familiar w the regs of whatever state their in for the limits on childen's employment.
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