Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba A 0 i Winnipeg free press january 1985 pages 1322 3yearold boy suffers stigma social workers launch support group for battered by Bradley Bird backstage at Manitoba theatre Centre Dur ing and after a product Ion its a world of personal Idio technical and occasional an hour and a half before the curtain Rose for a recent matinee performance of Anne Chislette quiet in the land on the actors prepared themselves in Var ious ways for the play about turn of Century Amish in some some some played cards hoped they be sick any minute now in going to get i just had a chocolate says Niney Earold Nicole at 1 she and fellow actress Lorca Moore Are still in their Street clothes and playing cards in the Coffee room adjacent to the dressing rooms behind the each of them sitting on a Blue they flank a White Coffee frantically they throw Down their in the Corner of Gates Couch sits 14yearold Matthew Ball completes the contingent of three Winnipeg children who per form in the we play cards Between scenes and before the show because theres nothing else to Moore at Shes already a Veter having performed in two Cana Dian feature films and other the atre but Shes not immune to preshow or illness from at our second last rehearsal be fore the preview i kind of up chucked behind the Moore Candy gets blamed i did too pipes in i was on the Boardwalk and i want feeling Well so i just threw actress Elva Mai sitting on the Couch playing solitaire be Side says the childrens nausea was Likely caused by Hoover plays solitaire before a performance because she likes to be with her own but at the same time with youre sort of with but youre you dont feel at the end of other Side of the dressing the stage Crew sits in its office playing they Edone their work checking the motors that move the two stages in and out of the wings checking the flies ropes that move the five backdrops and of course the sound and for this show the checks took Only 10 minutes for some plays it takes now they wait relaxing a sense of excitement starts to in another at actor David Fox sits staring into a lightaul bridged Mirror applying like Fox is a vet fort seven minutes from now he takes the stage with a Lead role in the Christy Hes already dressed in the cos tume hell Wear on stage dark Grey pants and suspenders and a White on the White counter before him lie makeup a pack of opened Vantage Light a car milk bar andean open bag of Paulins to his right Are four other places and behind a clothes cupboard lines the the talk turns in youre pretty Well responsible for your own he in others do it for i think that one of the main differences Between stage and brushing on the Rouge that gives him a brighter Hanife says he prefers to apply his own its More satisfying and he likes the control it gives James free press Fox transforms himself into Christy actors Are pretty Well responsible for own he behind the scenes at Mac he tells of a dispute he had a few weeks ago with the set designer and James Roy the they wanted him to off his Beard and use a false one for uniformity with All the other i just cant stand the idea of doing a whole show in a false Fox i sweat a and if might fall a Compro Mise was struck he Lightens his own Beard with a Silver hair color to make it resemble the its five to Joan costume prepares for her afternoons she helps the ladies get into their costumes be fore and during the three or four dresses each lady has three or four dresses at she which they Wear at various times during the As each Man has a Wamus Short jacket and a Mutze a Tail theres a lot of changes and it can get complicate often a Complete change of clothes is made in 30 seconds Thih Speed Bonny boat like a Bird on the Over the sea to slide Cany the lad that born to be Over the sea to Hoover and a Grade 9 Stu Dent in French immersion at River Heights Junior sing this old scottish song in the Coffee actress Joy Thomps Nallen joins we always sing before the Thomps Nallen its a Good Warmup for the Amish song soon sing on fifteen minute Debbie apprentice stage sits at a card table Joy Thomps Nallen near the singers and plays Grid she says that at five minutes to places is called and the those actors who perform in the first Are herded into the sometimes people forget props such As she in that Case Shell Contact the stage Man Ager by Headphone and ask him to wait before raising the curtain until she gives the signal that All is in not this big in real says actress Margaret whose circumference is substantially increased by the padding Shes slipped into with Lees ill ers it makes you feel like a workout old she As Little Cates nips in and Straightens her ankle length Barton says the fact Treyve Al ready done one performance that in the is a rather than being a tiresome both the morning production is Al ways a it gets me five minutes to Roy an then the play Titi but the world wont leave us and now this country has declared military service booms George Merner As Bishop Eli Frey As the play this Means they will try to make us fight in their sinful in the wings on stage left the audiences All is still and the Only lighting coming from three Blue along the Back Concrete 65 heavy ropes Are Strung these flies Are manipulated by men on the Fly floor about 14 metres above the they work on a counterweight which allows one Man to move up to a the flies Are used to raise and lower various backdrops or a scale Iron ladder Are you afraid of Heights asks stagehand Hart he leads the Way As we scale the Iron ladder up the Wall and onto the Fly floor catwalk where Greenberg spends much of his production using a typed Page of instructions and cues from the stage manager Over the Greenberg is Able to execute split second raising and lowering of the most important part of this Job is Greenberg he says you have to know How fast to pull and when to for he has masking tape markings on the ropes to signal the Correct it takes time and practice to Mas Ter the and that usually done in theres Bull Flymen and theres finesse Fly Greenberg i consider myself a finesse things do go during a production two years an actor put a Dis stand by a pipe which prevented the lowering of a Back then its sort of Fly by the seat of your Greenberg wheres Nicole asks Moore at the door Between the dressing room area and the she Doest even have her dress Ball youve got to weve had our Ball says to a nearby seconds later Cates opens the stage door and trots to her place in the the stage Crew Scur Ries to pick up the Corn that left from the previous stage manager Barr says All is going then actor Bob Cloutier Steps can i miss the curtain Call i have to go to says walking is that going to mess you up at All Cloutier Barr says no and moves on to take care of other Hes a Busy says Clou for whom the play is his first As a a Winnipeg Ger who was the Captain Blue Mascot for the Blue bombers in has High Praise for director James Roy is an actors Hes a sympathetic you feel Good working with a Guy like in my i feel like i have a lot of learning to and he didst make me feel like a during the last scene of the Don head prepares to push the buttons move the two Mobile stages off the main snuggled into a cubbyhole on stage left with full View of the Yascheshyn says the system that moves the stages is a it was invented by a computer designer from Yascheshyn the or move on neoprene when magnets on the wagons Cross electronic sensors on the they break the circuit and Stop the Titi i two and a half hours after it quiet in the land is Fin one of 36 productions the 15 actors and 20odd backstage people will present until the final show sitting again at his actor Fox begins to remove his what does he do after performing in two plays that Day he goes to see another play at the warehouse in the in he theres a whole Bunch of us Koine 6 show bits i Happy we arrange Eye examinations robbery postpones Benefit play from the news services new York a Benefit performance saturday night of a play dedicated to the memory of a Mur dered Young actress had to be postponed when the shows two stars were beaten and producers the two Sergio and Linda said they were set beaten and robbed by four youths Friday at 50th Street near 10th Avenue in the Benefit for rape victims was postponed for a week by the performance of goodbye Rome has been dedicated to Caro line who was stabbed to death the Day she auditioned for the off Roadway police said she was stabbed when she resisted a would be police said two youths have been arrested in the Garcia out on bail san Francisco Jerry Gar legendary patriarch of the grateful dead Rock music has been released on bail following his arrest for allegedly freebasing cocaine in the front seat of his police said police officer Mark Gamble con fronted Garcia on Friday As the Rock Star sat in a car parked off the Roadway in Golden Gate Gam ble said he noticed the cars registration had when he the officer he noticed a Strong smell of something burning and saw Garcia allegedly drop a piece of tin foil Between the front police arrested of san on two counts of pos session of narcotics and one count of paraphernalia said Dep Uty sheriff Greg he was released after posting 250 Eatmon freebasing is mixing cocaine and Ether and then ingesting the meat loaf collapses England Rock meat loaf collapsed on stage after suffering food poisoning during the his manager meat loaf was in the midst of his energetic act at Newcastle City Hall when he passed he was taken to the Royal Victoria where he was released after an Examina a spokesman manager Robbie Johnstone said meat Loans problems resulted from food poisoning contracted the pre Vious leaving his system completely this illness combined with the heat on stage caused his to Pioneer Dies at 80 London sir Robert known As the father of commercial television broadcasting in died his Rosa Lind he was the cause of death was not Fraser was named the first 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