Whistling backstage at a performance venue is taboo.
There?s a reason for that.
Also, unlike other performance venues, the seats in Bowlus Fine Arts Center auditorium are set back farther from the stage.
There?s a reason for that, too.
Mixing bits of trivia with facts and figures about the 54-year-old building, Bowlus executive director Daniel Kays and technical director Jeff Jordan led a dozen audience members through a backstage tour Thursday evening.
The tour was part of the Iola Public Library?s educational programs for March.
Bowlus director Daniel Days, left, shows how the Bowlus auditorium?s rigging system works (from atop the 65-foot stage ceiling).
?You?ve seen what happens from out here,? Kays said as
the visitors gathered in the auditorium. ?Now you get to see what it?s like in there.?
The 80-minute tour gave Kays and Jordan a chance to show off the auditorium?s elaborate rigging, lighting and sound systems, plus an up-close view of other areas typically off limits to the general public.
