When intermission is coming to a close, places have been called, and the PSM is waiting on you to have your one performer in order to begin the second half, you know what's unhelpful? 33 people all dressed the same.
When we were in dress rehearsals for The Magic Flute, there was a day when the stage right ASM said she was missing one chorister for places. Our PSM asked if she knew which one, and the response over headset was filled with laughter. See, in Komische's version of Flute, the full chorus (16 men and 16 women) are all dressed as Sarastro doubles at the top of act 2 - complete with top hats and beards.
As I was currently looking at the real Sarastro in that moment, I explained to him what was happening on level 1 and we had a good laugh.
2 weeks later, standing at the railing of the second level on the back of the wall that make up the set, having my PSM ask to know the moment I had eyes on the real one so we could start the second half, and staring down into a sea of Sarastros, I couldn't help but continue to laugh.
When we were in dress rehearsals for The Magic Flute, there was a day when the stage right ASM said she was missing one chorister for places. Our PSM asked if she knew which one, and the response over headset was filled with laughter. See, in Komische's version of Flute, the full chorus (16 men and 16 women) are all dressed as Sarastro doubles at the top of act 2 - complete with top hats and beards.
As I was currently looking at the real Sarastro in that moment, I explained to him what was happening on level 1 and we had a good laugh.
2 weeks later, standing at the railing of the second level on the back of the wall that make up the set, having my PSM ask to know the moment I had eyes on the real one so we could start the second half, and staring down into a sea of Sarastros, I couldn't help but continue to laugh.
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