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I recently saw the Jose Gonzalez Trio play "A Charlie Brown Christmas" at the Playhouse in Seattle Center (next door to PNB), as a fundraiser for Strawberry Theater Workshop, which meant that the audience was milling about backstage for drinks and an auction. By far the most fascinating thing for me was the system for raising and lowering the drops. There was a whole wall of them, ropes and levers and pulleys and buttons. You could see the ranks of rigging overhead. And the Playhouse is a fairly small theater; I can only imagine how big a system they must have in a bigger hall.

This is an interesting piece. More interesting than the ballet, to me. But then, I liked "Topsy Turvy" a lot more than I like Gilbert and Sullivan.

What I'd really like to see is a backstage tour of the Opera. Can you get on that, please, Brendan? Bring an acoustical engineer with you.
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Thank you so much for the nice piece & those photos. My mother & I were at opening night of the first one, have been every year save a couple, & chose tickets this year for that last performance. It was bittersweet.

We were surprised there were no encores galore. We'll miss this beautiful Nutcracker.
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I love these pictures. It's so cool to see shots of my coworkers and colleagues in the course of their duties, being as we're not a profession given to glamour and attention.

One of the older stagehands I work with (who's in one of your photos, here!) once joked to me that the only time a stagehand is seen in a picture is because they walked into frame by accident. Afterwords they get yelled at for ruining the shot.

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