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Author Archives: Christina Hecht
Christina Hecht
Extra Super Supernumeraries!
Supers – supernumeraries – extras: this is what you call the members of a cast who perform walk-on roles. In SFB’s Nutcracker the ‘supers’ provide the local color in the Prologue: the policeman, baby-nurse, butcher, “rich lady,” and the nuns. Company members and students play the other Prologue roles (tree boys, flower seller, “rich girl,” the shopping [...]
A Big Day
One early afternoon last week, we unpackaged a number of little tights, leotards, t-shirts, and ballet shoes. We then lined them up on tables, with the shoes and clothing arranged by size. We also created a “hair station” for bun-making. Who, you might ask, are “we,” and for whom were we preparing all this? The San [...]
A Lesson in Swordfighting
BRAVO volunteers have five children to chaperone in each performance of Romeo & Juliet. Backstage with the children this evening, I had a special treat: watching Marty Pistone, the fight director on this production, teach them stage combat techniques for the performance. In the production, the two little boys mimic their elders with some mock [...]
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