I'll watch everything else.
For more than forty years, our own, Dave Marietta worked behind the scenes in Minneapolis theaters, making sure the show could go on. His stories come from the hidden corners of a theater: boiler rooms, loading docks, and the narrow spaces behind the curtain where the unseen work quietly holds a performance together.
With humor, honesty, and a craftsman’s attention to detail, Marietta writes about the people who made that world work. Electricians, riggers, stagehands, performers, promoters, and the occasional character who drifted through the place and left a story behind.
Along the way are stories about brothers and family, about work done carefully and well, and about the quiet dignity of people whose names never appear on the marquee.
“The theatre wasn't where he worked. It was where he came from.”
