I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.
There is not a military commander alive today who is genetically predisposed to say that he has enough ISR and assets, and particularly not in the Central Command theater.
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
