[SML] [EXTERNAL] Re: curring threads

[Stephen Rees]

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On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 5:11 PM Jeffrey Kanyuck via Stagecraft <
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> THEE show which made me hate glitter so much was the Miss Alaska Pageant
> in 1980 or 1981. It was a standard 2000 seat proscenium style theater with
> a fly loft and grid to match.
> I was just a spot op on the show but, attended high school which the
> theater was attached to, so all of the high school performances were also
> in this theater.
>
> Whomever was in charge of the pageant felt it was a great finale to take 6
> 55 gallon garbage bags full of 1/4" glitter to the grid and drop let loose
> with the entire 6 bags full from there at the end of the event.
>
> Needless to say it covered everything on the way down. the grid,
> electrics, battens, a  multitude of curtains, lighting fixtures, the stage
> floor, in the floor pockets, the performers......
>
> It kept falling for years. It was still in places when I went back to
> visit the technicians in charge before I left Alaska in 2004.
> .....did I mention I hate it? The technicians there at the time weren't
> there during that show. They had learned to hate it, also.
>
> Jeff Kanyuck
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