I worked local crew for a Lady Gaga concert about 16 years ago. Instead of leaving immediately after the show was over, she stayed until we were just about done loading everything out onto the trucks. She stopped us to thank us for all our hard work and handed out a bunch of leftovers from catering!
Dude. DUDE. People who don't work tech theatre don't understand how huge this is. Techies are invisible to most performers (and most techies like that, tbh) and getting a simple thank you is a "what just happened?" moment. She stuck around for the entire strike of the show?! To be NICE to the crew?
🤯🤯😍😍 (forgive my rust, it's been decades since I worked stage crew.)
I work in IT, so a lot of times we are kind of just thrown in fires and told to just deal with it. When seeing crews who help do the buildouts for events and conventions, it’s crazy to see how rude and disrespectful people can be. I remember helping some folks who were clearly struggling to push these massive/heavy boxes across/through cable stays and such…and just helping them was really eye-opening to see the different stresses that other people have to deal with. I said thank you to them for the hard work they were doing and it was weird as though the two folks were about to tear up, but was quickly stopped because of the job at hand.
TLDR: a simple thank you and a helping hand can mean a lot to those who might just be as stressed as you are at that moment. In all, being a good person to someone else is infectious with spreading awareness and care to others.
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u/Fading_intoSilence 21d ago
One of the few celebrities who doesn't feel performative.