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The wig room
War Memorial Opera House
301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California
(Photo posted Sunday 25 October 2009)
(Photo taken 11:49:38 Saturday 24 October 2009)
© 2009 Bryan Costales

Angela Beske Sunday 25 October 2007

These wigs and moustaches belong to Donizetti's Opera "Daughter of the Regiment" to be performed the next afternoon.

 

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Detail of wig construction
The mustache board in the wig room
Labels on a locker door
Photos bedecked the refrigerator in the break room
Joke sign by water cooler and pay phone
A bum's rush out the North Stage Door
And the tour ended on the building's north side
Front entry to the Opera House on Van Ness
Side entry for limo and taxi drop-off
Awnings over the north side entry doors
Tours began on the south side (Grove Street)
Just inside the south side entry
A tapestry found just inside the south side
Stairway led up to the balcony boxes
The main entry hall on the Van Ness side
Many plaques and statues describe the history Entry way to the 2nd level balcony booths The balconies as viewed from the main floor Main floor seating Each dressing room included makeup supplies A hanging bar where costumes would hang
Typical of the many backstage corridors Sign hung in the below-stage costume area Part of the orchestra pit Extra orchestra pit music stands stored below stage Costumes protected by a cotton tarp stored below stage In opera, tormenters are called legs
Below stage storage was orderly and well labeled