Also popular with film crew technicians and backstage theatre types.
She spent most of the concert seated alone onstage with an acoustic guitar, though a drummer, a bassist and three backup singers were on call backstage, along with a guitar technician who came running to move her footstool.
Legend has it a chorus girl broke up with her technician boyfriend at the backstage stairs, then went on stage.
In addition to its crew of field reporters and commentators, "The Daily Show" has a large backstage contingent of writers, producers and technicians.
"The goal is to make the World Series of Poker more popular than ever and more relevant," said Mr. Pollack as he gave a tour of the trailers backstage, where, he said, 90 ESPN technicians will handle the final feeds.
Make sure there is an executive board member with the DJ, light technician, and a couple of members backstage helping with models and designers.
A technician controls the train's speed by computer from backstage.
With her stage discipline and exquisite manners on stage and off, she was not only a favourite in the profession but also backstage, where her charm pleased the most demanding directors and technicians.
Lunchtime chit-chat is regularly interrupted by announcements barked over the Tannoy system: "Would the lighting technician for The Good Person of Szechwan please make her way backstage immediately".
Cleverly, each song has a backstage build up; you walk through the winding corridors, passing groupies and stage technicians, you watch as your bandmates psyche each other up, then you leap onto the stage and begin.
