What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
Issue link: http://www.epageflip.net/i/1471106
LeafGuard is the ONLY one-piece seamless debris-shedding gutter 1-800-LeafGuard or 501-664-5400 www.leafguardandmore.com CALL TODAY! 479-221-9599 888-419-4906 The Best Gutters You Will Ever Have. Period. Not just clog free... GUARANTEED clog free. Best of Northwest Arkansas the FARM • HOME • LIABILITY S E R V I N G A R K A N S A S S I N C E 1 9 2 2 ENJOY THE RODEO OF THE OZARKS! 2209 North Henbest Drive • Fayetteville • www.washingtonins.net 479-442-2612 Washington County Farmers Mutual Fire I N S U R A N C E Company JUNE 19-25, 2022 WHAT'S UP! 7 The Show Is On The Road 'A Chorus Line' launches from Walton Arts Center MONICA HOOPER NWA Democrat-Gazette B efore the tip of the first gold- glittered hat, Dan Sher will be clocking lights, music and more at the Walton Arts Center as "A Chorus Line" prepares to take the show to Japan after a short four-show run June 24-26 in Fayetteville. The president of Big League Productions Inc. says that when the technical team does their job right, no one even notices. "The show doesn't even exist without teching it," Sher posits. "It's like a car nowadays without the computer system. … You have the parts in there, but if they don't talk to each other, the car just won't go." Sher says that people think that live shows are "more spontaneous" than they are when, in reality, there are hundreds of moving parts that have to be choreographed before the curtain rises. "You have maybe 200 lights in the air, and they're all going a certain direction and pointing at something and then moving in time to go to another actor or 17 actors who are moving in one direction" while the sound to each microphone has to be calibrated to project three voices over five others — which is only the tip of the musical iceberg in terms of coordinating the stage show alone. "Even if it is spontaneous and live and happening, it's all thought through with a microscope," Sher says. "It all has to be dissected. You can see a moment that might take two minutes to show — a section where all sorts of dancing is happening, all sorts of singing and lights flashing and scenery moving. That two minutes sometimes can take an entire four hours on the stage just working through," before audiences see it, he explains. "It's a very, very involved process to technically rehearse a musical, which See Chorus Page 38 FAYETTEVILLE A brand-new production of "A Chorus Line" will be in technical rehearsals and give only four performances June 24-26 at the Walton Arts Center before going to Japan. Tickets start at $33. (Courtesy Photo)