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friday,february27,2004
Tech crew vital to Lied Center
By Megan McKenzie Kansan correspondent correspondent@kansan.com
When spectators attend performances at the Lied Center, they are treated to shows from around the world. Elaborate musicals, plays and operas bring a variety of performers to Lawrence.
In the midst of these productions, one group of students has gone unrecognized. It is the technical crew, a group of students collaborating and working long hours behind the scenes.
The center hires 70 to 90 students a year to assist the backstage crew. Andy Hause, the center's associate technology director, said he hired most of the student employees from the University of Kansas career fair held in September.
Hause said the center depended on the students' support backstage.
"We are told our students are better than any crew," he said. "Because they are so enthusiastic and energetic."
He said union workers are too expensive to hire long-term.
Because it hires students, the center has to get approval from every touring show.
The University of Kansas' School of Fine Arts supports The Lied Center activities and student employees. These students work varying schedules depending on the shows scheduled at The Lied Center.
"We work bizarre hours depending on the number of students working backstage and our show schedule."Hause said.
Deb Lake, Ankeny, Iowa senior, said the management was
good, because it was easy to work for them.
"It is a really awesome on-campus job," Lake said. "First, you are a student to them and then you work for them."
The student employees are paid $6.50 to $7 to work backstage at the Lied Center. Students' jobs could range from wardrobe to adding auditorium seating to moving curtains.
He said one of the obstacles the students tend to face is working with a language barrier. A company came through The Lied Center and the entire cast and crew was Russian. The group had one interpreter.
"The kids could only talk by gestures," Hause said. "It was tough, but they got through it."
Edited by Henry C. Jackson
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