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(11) * Billed as the ures.... 180' X ..1 full acre. stage.....3 ti "Largest Stage in the World" 242' and totals......43,560 The Showroom which seats 2, mes. , the stage square feet 000 could f meas-or. . it on the * The stage crews maintain the scenery on stage and perform caster maintenance on.......over 700 casters on some... pieces of scenery, that make the scenery moveable. * The Waterfalls are the same size as a ...3 story building and weigh an estimated.......6 tons. One of the more incredible feats in the show is performed by the Stage Right crew w they set their Waterfall: each show. The huge giant is pushed downstage ...108 feet by (6) crewmen and put within ..6 inches each show..... or we don't have water. The crew has pushed the Waterfall over.....240 miles since the show opened. * For you "trivia" buffs.....the name of the Boat in the "Earthquake" scene is the "ILO BEE" and there are.-------2 5. different advertisements located on buildings throughout the scene. WARDROBE Maria Romaggi Theatre. There are shows at night and ervision of Dotty 0 quick changes, they repairing costumes is in charge of the largest department in the (3) Supervisors and (23) Attendants working the an additional crew during the day under the sup-rchard. Not only do they assist the cast with are also constantly involved with replacing and and j ewelry. * There are over ...2,000 costumes in the show with many of the costumes being added and replaced since the show first started. There are however, numerous costumes that have taken the wear and tear of 6,000 shows. * Each San Francisco "big hat" averages over....40 yards o material carefully sewn into place. In fact, the amount of fabric used in construction of the costumes for the Opening and San Francisco scenes amounts to over.... 5,000 yards. * During one show, the dancers average....9 changes of costume. Figuring an average of (80) Dancers per show, there are..... ...720 changes of costumes per show. That totals over..... ..4 million changes of costumes in the past 6,000 shows. * During the past eight and one-half years, the Wardrobe department has used over.......8,500 miles of thread in their repairs and rebuilding of costumes. GENERAL TRIVIA AND HUMEROUS EVENTS A lot of interesting stories have developed over the past shows, but unfortunately I can only list a selected few. A lot them are blunders that occasionally happen and some of them ar 6,000 of e just