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Kansas City Repertory Theatre, rehearsal for Romeo and Juliet, 2014 – screenshot from video
MISSOURI ARTS COUNCIL ▪ MARCH 11, 2015
Videos Take You Behind the Scenes of Missouri Arts
by Barbara MacRobie
How does a staged fight look deadly? What techniques bring a damaged painting back to glory? How can
an orchestra find out how loud a new pipe organ can get without blasting the audience out of the hall? In
videos by Missouri arts organizations, artists and technicians reveal behind-the-scenes magic that goes
into finished works of art.
“Let’s get as dangerous as we can!”
Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s fight director
John Wilson and the cast of Kansas City
Repertory Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet create
no-holds-barred sword fights to express the
passions of the play’s characters and story.
(2:51 minutes)
Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Romeo and Juliet, 2014;
Left to right, front: Michael Pauley (Tybalt), Vincent
Wagner (Paris), Jamie Dufault (Romeo). Back: Katie Hall
(Ensemble), Shanna Jones (Balthazar)
– photo by Don Ipock
Making a spare head
Actor Sean Meehan goes the extra mile for his art, as Repertory Theatre of St. Louis special effects artist
Steve Tolin smears him with goop to make an essential prop.
(2:28 minutes)
“Let her rip!”
Two hundred intrepid volunteers help the Kansas City Symphony push the limits of the massive Casavant
organ at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
(6:13 minutes)
Reviving a masterpiece
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s Penitent
Magdalene by 16th-century master El Greco
was in rough shape. Senior Conservator of
Paintings Scott Hefley shows how he fixed it.
(2:25 minutes)
Mary Magdalene and Scott Hefley
– screenshot from video
“I pictured the water on a leaf.”
Designing, fitting, managing, and caring
for costumes for the 20 dancers of Saint
Louis Ballet—the camera goes backstage
with Wardrobe Mistress and Costume
Supervisor Nada Darandari.
(4:49 minutes)
Saint Louis Ballet, The Nutcracker, 2013
– photo by Zyg Mulnik
Good moon rising
From a bare platform to a duke’s palace
in less than a minute—time-lapse editing
and the crew of Shakespeare Festival St.
Louis work wonders for Twelfth Night.
(48 seconds)
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Twelfth Night, 2013;
Haas Regen, Gary Glasgow, Eric Hoffmann, Anderson
Matthews (members Actors' Equity Association)
– photo by © J. David Levy
Photos and screenshots are courtesy of the organizations featured.
Videos Take You Behind the Scenes of Missouri Arts was created in March 2015 for the Missouri Arts Council, a state
agency and division of the Department of Economic Development. The Missouri Arts Council provides grants to nonprofit
organizations that meet our strategic goals of increasing participation in the arts in Missouri, growing Missouri’s economy
using the arts, and strengthening Missouri education through the arts. For information, contact [email protected].
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Please feel free to share and distribute. Attribution: Courtesy of the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.