People don't even realise how much work goes into every show, everyone who works backstage and behind the scenes deserve so much more recognition

Every year after the last show our "captain" (we're pirate themed) calls all people that are part of the crew onto the stage and it's always awesome because even though we're just 30 people on stage the whole crew consists of about 100 people working behind the scenes, in catering, etc.

That would scare me having all of that stuff over my head..

Wow. This was very informative. An absolute army of people whose goal is to make sure you never think of them during the whole play because their work is seamless and invisible.

wow props to them!

This is so cool! I love seeing how different Broadway is from high school or community theater. Everything is designed so much better, and good to know there's really never any room for anyone to get on and off stage! Personally a huge fan of the SM's IR camera, and the monitor displays. Have to love the high school's lighting board that has one old monitor and saves cues on floppy disks :/

go stage manager!!!! only 17 musicians, omigod!! storing in the air!!! i would so want a tour!!! it's official!! I LOVE THIS!!

wow theres only 17 musicians (aside from the percussionists) (if thats how you spell it) in the pit?? with all the music you would think theres more!

I love how an older guy giving us a tour of LBTM

I had no idea all of the prep work was so complicated....no wonder tickets have to be priced as they are. This show was worth double what they charged though. It was so upbeat and fun. Made me appreciate all the extraordinary one-of-a-kind people in my life...The cast was pitch perfect in all ways possible.

this is so cool. i wonder how one goes about learning how to do this kind of work...

O_O It looks so simple on stage.

so cool to see all that goes into bringing a show to life! x

There is only one center lift. Once the door rotates, it slowly moves backwards off of the lift and onto the stage. You don't notice it because it is so slow. Then the lift shoots down, the chorus gets onto it, and it comes back up. The door does not go down the lift before the chorus shows up. Watch that scene again. The door sits onstage while the chorus is singing because they are standing on the lift. Once they start dancing it moves forward onto the lift and goes back down.

gotta love the techies!!!!

+David Cherrie the central lift has a track on it. The door moves back off the lift so the lift can go down without taking the door down too. The girls load on the lift, it goes up. When they are singing for positive, it moves forwards back onto the lift and then goes down. Hope this helped! P.S Sorry this is realllyyyy late.

thank you so much for this.

Other than wicked this is the most technically complex stage show I've seen.

Thats crazy that all the stuff is flown onto the stage from up in the air (including the golf cart)!

great commentary!!

hoooolyyyy craaap

It’s surprising how small the Broadway theatres are on stage. You definitely can’t hang out back there. Then you on your and you are in cavernous spaces sometimes with off stage space a wide as the stage itself.

2:13 Could someone explain how an actor gets to "see" in the dark? I mean, how did they communicate to her what the technicians were able to see in the infrared screen? It's tough to make blackouts safe

Can anyone answer if there are 2 lifts built into the stage. In the first class scene, the class door that comes on to stage via the lift, rotates and goes back down. Is there another lift further downstage in the orchestra pit that the Greek Chorus comes up from?