Category: Concerts
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Doing Work with UPB
After planning for more than 6 months day of show has arrived! It is Friday at at 4:45 and I am driving over to the Convocation Center to begin loading in. The truck filled with stage pieces, legs and railings is backed in to the Convo loading dock waiting for us. I can’t help but…
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The Business Side
Tuesday 11am. Listening Party time! While I sit in my science class Center Stage is taking over the Commons with some games to promote ticket sales happening the following morning. Normally students camp out before ticket sales but something was different about this concert that we did not expect. People started camping out at 8:30…
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Week of Chaos
Center Stage is spastic. One week we can have nothing to do while the next we have 3 events. These lulls are caused by the fact that before ticket sales or the show date we are swamped in preparation. This week’s cause for chaos is the fact that the tickets for biggest concert of the…
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What does Center Stage actually do?
This year JMU experienced something different. Instead of one concert in the fall there were three. So much more goes into this decision than the average student may realize. That is where my job comes into play. As Center Stage Director I work with our middle agent to find out availabilities and prices of artists…
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You Know What It Is
Wednesday morning and I am singing the Barney song about rain, you know the one… “standing outside with my mouth open wide”. It is drizzling but UPB treks onward because today is Crazy Commons. It is the 26th of January. I have been holding a big secret since late November and it is finally time…
my feet don't want to go to sleep 