Most versatile, can paint and build scenery, lead orchestra, etc.
About a quarter of the 2,200 active members of Local One, who build scenery, maintain props and install and operate lighting and sound equipment, work on Broadway.
If you walk around to the back, you can watch through large windows as workers design sets, build scenery, sew costumes, mix fake blood (an operatic staple), and perform other backstage chores.
Malden also helped build scenery, took acting classes and appeared in plays.
The curtain may have fallen on your favourite play, but this summer, Propstore – a pop-up riverfront cafe and bar built using scenery and props from recent National Theatre productions – is stealing the show.
It's a chance for grown ups to build dramatic scenery out of old cardboard boxes, and get all messy while painting them.
Avenues, colonnades, arches and many more architectural features take shape without any scenery, built and rebuilt by dancers alone.
"At the time, the road was built for the scenery, which was the rolling farmland of Connecticut, but suburbia grew up around it," says Dr. Bruce Clouette, an archaeologist who has written extensively about Connecticut's highway bridges.
