My Role in the Musical;

Backstage Work:
I was assigned to work on the backstage element of the running of the musical. This consisted of maren and me on right stage and danielle, rosanne, natalie on the left stage. We were responsible to control, move and be sure that the specific props needed for each set were there ready for the cast characters. We had a ten second interval between scenes, called a 'black out'. This left us with very short time to have everything prepared for the following scenes throughout the musical.

This is one of the most important and crucial jobs in the whole musical and needs to be done properly and correctly in order for the show to go ahead successfully.
My role as a backstage crew person, I had a copy of the floor plan of how the set should be shown and the extra props that may be needed throughout that scene ready for the cast at the sides of the stage. This role is our job to ensure that we knew where the props went on the stage and to follow the scene plans to make sure we knew exactly when to put them in their place.

Most of the shows were completed very succesfully and with ease with the help of the girls on each side of the stages but there were times when something little was missing or a locker may not have been shown. But keeping in mind we did only have a ten second interval to have everything prepared perfectly for the following scenes. Apart from a few mistakes, I think that the backstage crew played a big part in the musical and that we performed our job to the best of our abilities to make sure the musical went as planned and ran as smoothly as possible.