Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A REELY BIG SHEW!.....#4

12-25-2011 03;34;59PM by bucklesw1
12-25-2011 03;34;59PM, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Posted by Buckles at 12/28/2011 05:43:00 AM

9 comments:

Chic Silber said...

That's an RCA TK11B camera on a

pneumatic dolly back when it took

2 men & a boy to lift the camera

The camera cable was 1" diameter

All studio floors were covered in

heavy battleship linoleum but I

think it's Wednesday & that's a

real hot showbroad

28 December, 2011 13:16
Chic Silber said...

Upon further examination of an

enlarged image it seems that I

have lied about the camera as I

believe it is a much later model

the TK60 which was not as common

During my apprenticeship in the

stagehands union I spent a little

time in TV production

28 December, 2011 14:26
Buckles said...

The last time we did the Sullivan Show we worked at a different location a few blocks away that had facilities for color.
About ten years later Eartha took us to the hottest spot in NY and as soon as we arrived I realized it was the same place we had done that TV Show.
The joint was jumpin', plenty of celebrities and assorted exotic looking people but I must say, out on the floor Eartha and Barbara held their own with the best of them.
I might add that despite my cool detatchment, I managed to get groped a few times, once by a woman.
Can't remember what they called that place.

28 December, 2011 16:19
Chic Silber said...

You must be talking about the

nightclub "Studio 54" which was

opened as the Gallo Opera House

When CBS took it over it became

CBS Studio 52 even though it was

on 54th Street between Broadway &

Eighth Avenue & years later Steve

Rubell turned it into the hottest

club in NY & renamed it Studio 54

It was dark for many years but is

now operated as a legit house by

Roundabout Theater but they kept

the Studio 54 title

28 December, 2011 16:34
Buckles said...

Certainly, Studio 54.
So many times with Big Apple I would walk from Lincoln Center down town and passed the Sullivan Theater, brought back memories.
Louis Stern would give me directions to a Theatrical Hotel to go to when we got to New York,
only he pronounced it "three-at-rical" he would add, "Kid! around the corner theres a joint where you can get "ersters" on the half shell.
I didn't bother to explain that Ross Paul already had reservations for a place near Times Square.

28 December, 2011 17:01
Chic Silber said...

Were you with Big Apple when they

played the parking lot that had

been the "Garden" on 8th Avenue

between 49th & 50th

28 December, 2011 17:43
Buckles said...

In 1978 on a nice day while we were playing the Garden, a bunch of us strolled up 8th Avenue to see where the old Garden had been.
To our surprise a small circus was set up that hallowed site.
I asked who owned the show and was told it was the Big Apple Circus and they played a few dates around the city.
A few years later when we were with the show and after telling Stubbs this story, he said that in 1978 the only professional act they could afford was Hal Haviland's dog act.

28 December, 2011 18:12
Buckles said...

Oh! to answer your question by the time we joined in 1981, they had long since out grown that lot.
When Paul Binder first asked me about sending Ben and "Anna May" to the show and remembering the MSG lot I said, "I don't think they'll fit into that little tent" and he said,"Hell no! We got a big tent and we're now uptown in Lincoln Center".
He was right.

28 December, 2011 18:26
Chic Silber said...

I visited the show in 78 or 79

up there & was impressed with a

young female electrician that I

hired to work on our Monte Carlo

touring unit Although she had

been a really hard working girl

on Big Apple it didn't take her

long to learn how to have the

Jabronis on our show do most of

her work (a big dissapointment)

28 December, 2011 18:41

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