dmwnc1959 said: "CATSNYrevival said: "Has it been confirmed there won't be a passerelle or are you assuming there won't be one? Haven't other productions ofDolly toured with a passerelle just fine in the past?"
Do they bring a passerelle with them? I know for a fact that the Connor Palace in Cleveland (where I saw The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time)and the Benedum Center of the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh (where I have seen numerous shows)do not have a permanent, fixed, passerelle-style stage.Unless the venue has one that attaches to the current stage, the tour will need to bring one. Is this what the Shubert Theater and other venues in the past did? Add a passerelle? Just curious."
They would bring the passerelle with the rest of the set pieces. The actual construction of it, is not anything complicated. What does complicate matters is if the theatre needs to remove seats to accommodate it.
When the show first toured, in the 60’s theatres on receiving tours, had a slightlymore flexible approach than nowadays. Today deals with ticketing companies and just overall greed sometimes eliminate theatres as a possibility as they simply will not remove a row of seats, much the same as they might balk at a show with no interval (the losses in drinks takings is huge)
That said, the Broadway production has been a big deal and its no smalltime producer. I would be very surprised if the production toured without the passerelle.
