Always Be Clean

After every “Rocky Horror Show” up in the morning the cleaners are in use. Every day, visitors leave behind mountains of trash.

Hamburg. When the final curtain has fallen, and the light comes on in the theater house, then the full extent of the pleasure is visible. “An absolute state of emergency,” says Frank Diener, 48, head of the house cleaning at the theater. He says the toilet paper that is distributed over the red velvet chairs, the confetti in every crevice, the playing cards, newspapers, party hats on the floor, the plastic bags are dragged in water in which the guests. Ammunition for hands-Musical: The “Rocky Horror Show” has arrived in Hamburg. And every day she leaves behind piles of garbage in the theater.

“We had the photos from Cologne, where the musical has been previously performed, viewed,” says Frank servant, “but that’s not to compare. In this here no one was prepared.” In an e-mail to the house cleaning was previously been cautious of “increased need for cleaning,” the speech.

What exactly this means, read Frank Diener and his troops every day now after the performance. By 22 clock to end the piece, leaving a littered theater. Initially it was planned to clean up with eight people until midnight. Now comes an additional external cleaning company. Six employees work in the morning until seven or eight clock.

The “drop-orgy” is part of the “Rocky Horror Show” traditionally used. Not only the actors but also the spectators have props here. Those who forgot they can buy at the reception of the playhouse, even a “Fan Bag”. The waste is therefore not only tolerated, it is even planned. Only foods are forbidden. If it rains on the stage, splashing water from pistols through the room when the front to protect the honest Janet holds a newspaper over your head, do the viewers. The biggest waste is produced in the scene where the sex object is unpacked Rocky: Then the meter-wide rolls of toilet paper flying through the hall.

Servant who cleans itself otherwise only on the stage waiting every day now have a garbage bag behind the doors, while the final will be played encores. The toilet paper rolls, he and his people collect mostly already in the mid-term break together, after the play the vacuum cleaner can be used. 20 bags per show will be full. The guests wear the hair and confetti on soles and up into the stairwell and on the toilets. Therefore, says Diener, bring the show but also a lot of good mood in the house. “I’ve never seen anyone who is not born with a smile on my face from the floor.”

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