Jackman intros the band, drags a bulky crew member from offstage just for fun, gives the chorus girls making their Broadway debut a special bow and gets everyone to sing "Happy Birthday" for one of the gals.
Advance aides to Walker, wearing straw cowboy hats and clear plastic ear pieces, stood watching offstage, along with a robust crew of plainclothes state troopers in the governor's protective detail, which doubled in size in 2011 after protests began at the Capitol.
On Monday night, Cam'ron put on a short, sharp show even though his crew nearly crowded him offstage.
Another guest at the panel was less conventional: Baba Joe, a donkey-sized, automated alien created by visual effects professional Neil Scanlan, which lumbered back and forth across the stage and interacted with the human moviemakers with the help of a five-person crew of pilots (presumably all offstage).
Sprawled on a private jet in faded jeans and open-collar blue shirt, Mr. Edwards is glowing with confidence and self-regard, laughing and flirting a little, but earnestly convinced that it was necessary and wise to have the filmmaker and her crew recording his every movement and offstage thought.
He's still rabbiting on when the house lights come up, and the road crew have to all but drag him offstage.
Much of the action, including the killing of Klinghoffer, takes place offstage and is reported in conversations between the captain and his crew.
He then went offstage, suffered a major heart attack and died, despite help from both ambulance crews and the audience.
Offstage, one horrific tale holds that some combination of members of the band and their road crew whiled away an evening in a Seattle hotel inserting fish of disputed species into a woman's vagina.
