"SNAPPING TOURS" Part Two: Down to the Dressing Rooms!

So now that we know where the "stuff" is going to enter the building, let's see where the cast and crew will go. Just beyond the Pantages Backstage "Red Door" you will find a silver freight elevator marked "Broadway Center Rehearsal Hall." Not only does it go up three stories to that rehearsal hall, it also descends down to the basement of the Pantages . . . to the very bowels of the 1918 building . . .

There, you enter the Pantages Dressing Rooms, which are located directly beneath the stage. There is a "common area" that is open with lots of comfy but mismatched furniture in it (a lot like the Green Room at your home theater
I bet!).

Onto and around it are a whole series of dressingrooms from the two large "chorus" dressing rooms (20 - 25 per), to the smaller rooms along "Pit Row" - so named because they are directly across the green hallway from the Orchestra Pit entrance (3 - 6 per depending). Important tip: "Look Down" . . . there are Red Arrows taped out on the floor that generally direct you towards one of the stage entrances. It is easy to get lost in the labrynthine bowels of an old vaudeville house!

There are three ways to get to the stage from down here . . . the elevator, of course, and a small stairway that deposits you directly into the wings downstage left. Or, you come up another set of stairs that deposits you stage right behind the stage in the Green Room. See the red arrows?




































In the Green Room (on the comfy furniture that matches) we find the highly professional, but friendly and fun-loving Broadway Center Technical Staff. They are waiting to meet YOU and help you present your production at its best on the Pantages stage.


In Part Three: Tracing the Steps of the Audience
on the next installment of "SNAPPING TOURS"!