[SML] [EXTERNAL] Re: curring threads

[Jeff Forbes]

On Jul 11, 2020, at 12:00 PM, stagecraft-request at theatrical.net wrote:
> 
> 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

Hee hee, I bet I can guess which high school. I graduated from Dimond in ’74, went to college in Portland and eventually moved to Portland in June or July of ’80, but did a few IA extra calls in the first part of ’80. As I recall, West High was about the only school then with a decent auditorium.