His first job was moving scenery for "Action in the Afternoon," a daily half-hour western.
In Thousand Oaks the orchestra pit, the stage, the wing space and the fly space are commodious, a luxury for everyone, particularly the stagehands who are responsible for moving scenery in and out, up and down, onstage and off.
Mr. Messel's sets and costumes were re-imagined by Peter Farmer, with a whole new bit of moving scenery to depict the Lilac Fairy guiding the Prince in his search for the sleeping Princess.
He asked for patience if the actors needed to stop, as they had twice on Saturday, the result of glitches with moving scenery.
David Gallo, who with Shawn Sagady created the projection design for the current Broadway musical "Memphis," is excited about new software called Pandora's Box, which links the computers that separately run the projections and the moving scenery.
Images of palace interiors and waterside exteriors serve as moving scenery.
"It's a change of scenery for me moving south of the border and it's a challenge I'm relishing".
Last January, eager for a change of scenery, he moved to Denver, to work for ServiceMagic, an Internet company.
It'll be good to be back in my home town but I've enjoyed the move to Paris, a change in scenery for the first time in my life.
Things did, slowly, get better; I moved to Montreal for a while, then to Salt Spring Island, where the travel and change of scenery allowed me the space I needed to work through some of the trauma.
