BYU Students Go Backstage

In keeping with the new tradition of opening the backstage crew experience to local college kids, a contingency from BYU got to work with the crew in Salt Lake City. From ABC 4 in SLC:

Tuesday night Bon Jovi takes on Salt Lake City, but before the singer hits the stage BYU students learn what it takes to make it all happen.

10 BYU students spent the day learning how to put the concert together – from start to finish. The crew starts working at about 5AM turning a cement floor into a rock stage.

Kimberly Orton, a PR student at BYU said, “This is a really unique opportunity for us to see a large special event.”

Emily Taylor is also a PR student at the Y. She said, “No matter how much you learn in the classroom - seeing it first hand and experiencing it first hand, I learn it 100 times more.”

About 80 people make up the road crew; they say it takes only two hours to tear it all down

~ Hath