#1
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:48am
Forgot to mention this:
When I saw XANADU last Sunday a little girl sitting in the second row of on-stage seats in the center dropped her glowstick. It landed right at the bottom of the ramp in a VERY dangerous spot. She kept inching up out of her seat for an opportunity to go pick it up, knowing it was dangerous where it was.
She then told the person on the opposite side of the aisle about it, but the other person wouldn't pick it up. Then the girl told a teenager sitting in front of her to pick it up. The teen was waiting for an opportune time to swipe it, but it never came.
Meanwhile, being distracted from these on-stage conversations, it seemed as if the stage manager was informed as he told Curtis about it and on Curtis' next entrance, he went right for it and threw it offstage.
Later on, an ensemble member picked up a glowstick from the floor and threw it under her one-piece she was wearing. I didn't see how that glowstick ended up on the floor.
Might I suggest two things to the production of XANADU:
1) Do not let anyone under 18 years of age sit on stage.
2) Inform the on-stage audience to place the glowsticks in their pockets until it is time for them to whip them out.
Those things could have caused serious injuries.
When I saw XANADU last Sunday a little girl sitting in the second row of on-stage seats in the center dropped her glowstick. It landed right at the bottom of the ramp in a VERY dangerous spot. She kept inching up out of her seat for an opportunity to go pick it up, knowing it was dangerous where it was.
She then told the person on the opposite side of the aisle about it, but the other person wouldn't pick it up. Then the girl told a teenager sitting in front of her to pick it up. The teen was waiting for an opportune time to swipe it, but it never came.
Meanwhile, being distracted from these on-stage conversations, it seemed as if the stage manager was informed as he told Curtis about it and on Curtis' next entrance, he went right for it and threw it offstage.
Later on, an ensemble member picked up a glowstick from the floor and threw it under her one-piece she was wearing. I didn't see how that glowstick ended up on the floor.
Might I suggest two things to the production of XANADU:
1) Do not let anyone under 18 years of age sit on stage.
2) Inform the on-stage audience to place the glowsticks in their pockets until it is time for them to whip them out.
Those things could have caused serious injuries.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
