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    Showtime: Meet the People Behind the Scenes
    Showtime: Meet the People Behind the Scenes
    Showtime: Meet the People Behind the Scenes
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    Showtime: Meet the People Behind the Scenes

    By Kevin Sylvester

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    There are hundreds of people who make a live show worth seeing: the entertainers on stage, of course, but also the many people behind the scenes whose work ensures that the show will be a success.

    Set designer Machiko Weston meticulously creates miniature 3D sets that capture the smallest detail of what the actual stage will look like. Long-haul trucker Ben Pinel makes sure that instruments, lights, and speakers get to the venue safely and on time. And if onstage fireworks, laser shows, and special effects are appealing, the job of pyrotechnics expert comes with its fair share of excitement —and danger.

    Readers will learn about other behind-the-scenes people such as costume designer, promoter, vocal coach, and more: all people whose job it is to make sure that every show is the best one ever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnick Press
    Release dateFeb 7, 2013
    ISBN9781554515288
    Showtime: Meet the People Behind the Scenes
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    Kevin Sylvester

    KEVIN SYLVESTER is the author/illustrator of more than thirty books, including the MINRs trilogy, The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem, the Neil Flambé Capers and the Hockey Super Six series. Sylvester has won awards from across Canada, among them the Silver Birch Award and the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award. His latest novel, cowritten with Basil Sylvester, is The Night of the Living Zed. Kevin Sylvester lives in Toronto.

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