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Stage Crew -
march crossword puzzle
The Unsung

FIVE SPOT?
Heroes of the THEME: FIVE SPOT? DOWN

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 Clear up the windshield
Theatre 14 15 16 2 1964 Twin rookie of the year
3 ___ a row (Perfect game)
By Bruce Manzer 17 18 19 4 Slowdown
5 Fives and 5s, for example
6 Uh-huhs
20 21 22

7 Heston grp.
23 24 25 26 8 E-___-O
9 Fifty French notes (Pre-Euro)
27 28 29 30 31 32 10 Spicy stew
11 Bloke
33 34 35 36 37 12 Road problem?
13 Hesitations
very theatre production has unsung 38 39 40 41 18 Inflammable gas used as a
Eheroes working backstage. Known refrigerant
as the stage crew, they build and 42 43 44 45 19 Performance
decorate the set, move furniture, install 24 ‘Quint’essential name, 1934
and operate the lighting and the sound 46 47 48 25 5 on a phone
systems, and assist with costumes and 49 50 51 52 53 26 Is on the hook for

properties. 29 Kitchen wave
Even though they work unseen in 54 55 56 57 58 30 ___ breve (Cut time)
the shadows, the audience may get a 31 Help, but not in a good way
glimpse of them between scenes or 59 60 61 62 32 Winner’s wear
during intermission when they attend 33 A fight breaks out in the streets
onstage tasks, dressed completely in 63 64 65 of Verona, in this play part
black to be less noticeable. 66 67 68 34 CBS anchor Julie
Usually, a play will be performed 35 Goes with feathers
with only minor glitches; at other times 39 Will be: Fr.
tension arises for the tech team when 41 Isolated in a cell?
things don’t happen as planned: a show’s ACROSS ACROSS 44 ‘Joe’, in the South
sound cue library may disappear off a 1 A quincunx on a die has 5 38 Hers is a fragrant No. 5 47 Library dept.
shared laptop before the curtain rises, ‘pips’, or more simply, ‘this’ 40 Sign of a ‘paperclip’ company 51 Ray of Florida sunshine Bryant
or a telephone sound cue won’t play 5 Doubter 42 Arctic flier 52 Cross section girder
and an actor needs to adlib, or doesn’t 10 The Odyssey’s Cyclops 43 Sweeper? 53 Goes on and on
stop ringing when the actor answers it. 14 Philosopher Zeno’s home 45 Capable of feeling your pain 54 Brought home after a holiday?
Sometimes doorbells don’t work, door 15 Gold Roman coins 46 Uncertain 55 One of 5 ‘staff’ members
56 Some: Sp.
16 Maude creator Norman ___
48 Valjean, to Javert
handles come off in an actor’s hand, or 17 Kindergarten wall art 49 Big theatre 57 Not, in Berlin
doors get locked unintentionally, leaving 20 Egg: Comb. form 50 Put back on the track 59 Precedes 39-Down
the actor stranded on the wrong side of 21 QB’s goals 54 Sum-up 60 Maiden’s word
the door. 22 Yogi’s “Pair up into threes” 57 Collar, by the law 61 Letters of support?
The ‘dance’ between crew and cast is 23 From Commonwealth lawyer 58 Shaq’s grp. 62 ‘Ploy’ful herring
vital: actors skip cue lines for a sound/ to man of peace 59 500 anniversaries
th
light effect and the tech crew is left 25 A day in Paris 63 Arm part *Themes for puzzles that include
scrambling. Actors have been known to 27 Spy novelist Fleming 64 The Rosetta Stone or King a question mark or italics usually
drop large portions of a script during a 28 Caribbean festivals Tut’s mask indicate something that is beyond
performance causing the director and 33 ___ hunch (Intuitive guess) 65 Tête de l’___ (Head of state) the obvious. In this example, did
tech crew to search frantically in the 36 Barker with perfect pitch? 66 Scrimps you ‘spot’ the 5 arranged in black
script to get back on track. (May 15, 1981) 67 They’ve splintered squares in the center of the grid?
Live theatre can produce tense 37 Actress Jessica 68 Blocks As a result, the grid itself is part
moments: the sign of a good production of the theme.
team is getting through those moments
Puzzle by Douglas Taillon
without the audience realizing anything Puzzle by Douglas Taillon Solutions on page 60
was amiss.