<div dir="ltr"><div>Examples could be seen during production numbers for the stage show 'Hallelujah Hollywood!', and it's progeny, that debuted at the original MGM Las Vegas and MGM Reno.</div><div>/s/ Richard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Dorian Kelly via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Could you mean Passarella?<br>
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That is the piece of the stage which is essentially a strengthened orchestra rail, allowing a performer in Variety shows or light opera to approach the audience.<br>
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<<By having a passarella built for the performance, Sher revived a feature of Italian theatre architecture. The passarella is a catwalk, extending from both ends of the stage over the orchestra pit and arching over the auditorium, allowing the action taken forward into an intimate closeness with the audience. A passarella was always the crowning finale of that very old Italian artform, the rivista, a lighthearted and often sleazy musical<br>
farrago, when the stars and the chorus girls paraded up and down the passarella allowing patrons sitting in more expensive stalls a privileged view of what was hidden to the average theatregoer. I myself experienced the magic of the passarella in war-torn Italy, where in the wake of destruction the many rivista companies brought the first signs of life starting again.>><br>
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> On 26 Mar 2015, at 13:54, Herrick Goldman via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> the word Passarale came up in a design conference. While I inherently know what it is, I’m wondering where the word came from? Sounds like Italian Opera to me.<br>
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