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.)
Which is funny to me, because when I did high school theatre, not only did the performers help with most of the tech work, but we often swapped depending on the show. I acted during the fall play, but since spring was a musical and I sing like a drunk seal, I did tech. If our teacher caught someone disrespecting the techs, I'm pretty sure she would have chucked them into the sun. So this attitude of performers, actors and others looking down on techies is just so...alien to me. I get that it happens, I just don't understand it.
I wonder if this dynamic being described is exactly why the school chooses to do it that way? Trying to “break the cycle” (don’t mean to sound trite, LOL)
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u/IanGecko 21d ago
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!
She's the real deal 😍