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4 unusual facts about Backstage


Backstage

Back Stage (aka Backstage), an entertainment-industry brand that publishes Backstage magazine, Call Sheet, and Backstage.com

Backstage: Lakers

Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic shoots around with the team before a game at STAPLES Center, and meets Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard in the training room.

Behind-the-scenes footage of Kobe Bryant in the locker room immediately after his season-ending injury to his Achilles tendon with reaction from Gary Vitti and Head physical therapist Dr. Judy Seto.

The first episode of the series debuted on the launch night of the networks, October 1, 2012 at 9:00PM PST.


Angela Fong

Fong spent most of her time as the ECW backstage interviewer, until ECW ring announcer Lauren Mayhew departed from the WWE which Fong took over the role as the ring announcer of the show.

Ate Gay

In March 2013, Ate Gay became controversial to the backstage shouting incident that happened in the variety TV show Wowowillie with himself, Willie Revillame and Ethel Booba.

Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal

Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal is a rehearsal album of the rock band The Doors, recorded live at the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood.

Backstage Production

Backstage Production (or simply Backstage) is a pan-Arab artist management company based in the Middle East and controlled by CEO Khodr Alama.

Bellefire

They first formed in 1999 (see 1999 in music), backstage at an audition for a boy-girl band in which Louis Walsh was a judge.

Bjørn Opsahl

Opsahl are portraying Skavlan's guests backstage, and has so far worked with international celebrities such as Lionel Richie, Sir Ben Kingsley, Noel Gallagher, Petter Stordalen, Dave Grohl, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber.

Britney and Kevin: Chaotic

MTV News announced in April 2004 that Spears was planning a reality television series to document her backstage life during the European leg of The Onyx Hotel Tour.

Bumble Bees

It featured the group trying to make a good music video, but being hampered by a poor director, faulty equipment and the weight of René Dif being too much for a backstage crewman holding his support rope.

Crystal Louthan

During the Fall 2007, Louthan joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a backstage interviewer, replacing previous interviewer Leticia Cline.

Daikoku Danji Japan First Live 2012

The DVD features the live concert which was held at Shibuya Public Hall in Tokyo on March 20, 2012, and also includes rehearsal, backstage footage, and private footage.

Danielle Staub

She acted in several sketches including a surprise cold open where she tried to take over as the show's host after leaving the real presenter, Danielle Fishel, bound and gagged backstage.

Earth vs. The Radiators: The First 25

The Radiators and Gregg Allman (features backstage footage and a joint performance of Allman's "Midnight Rider")

Elsa Fayer

She participated in 2003 at Nouvelle Star where she supported the candidates in the backstage during the prime time.

Excess All Areas

The title is a pun on "Access All Areas" (text often found on backstage passes at concerts) being a homonym with the title in Australian English.

Gabrielle Kurlander

In 2007, Kurlander starred as Susan B. Anthony in Backstage: A Love-Hate Relationship of the Women’s Movement.

Harley Flanagan

On July 6, 2012, Flanagan was arrested for allegedly stabbing two current members of Cro-Mags, and biting one of them in the groin, backstage at the Webster Hall in New York City and charged with felony assault.

Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013

The three heats, two semifinals and final were hosted by Gábor Gundel-Takács and Éva Novodomszky, with Márton Buda conducting backstage interviews.

Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014

All shows in the competition will be hosted by Éva Novodomszky and Gábor Gundel Takács, with Levente Harsányi and Krisztina Rátonyi conducting backstage interviews.

Igor Talkov

He was fatally shot backstage at the Yubileiny concert hall in Leningrad; the next day was declared a national tragedy throughout the whole Soviet Union.

Jeanette MacDonald Autobiography: The Lost Manuscript

“Perhaps the most unbelievable note I ever received backstage was between the second and third act of the opera Romeo and Juliet. It read: ‘Please sing “The Indian Love Call” during the next intermission.’”

Jeff Stryker

In her autobiography, Traci Lords describes him as “handsome but rather dumb looking” after he gave her scornful looks backstage during a Century City Civic Center Thierry Mugler Fashion show.

Jimmy Wong

He has also been a host on Disney's Backstage Pass and starred in the XFX webseries Secret Weapon.

Khodr Alama

In event organizing, Khodr and Backstage Production organized the two closing ceremonies for the 6th Jeux de la Francophonie in 2009 which was held in Beirut, and continuously organize festivals and concerts around the Middle East, mostly featuring Ragheb Alama.

Kiss Konfidential

The video features 13 live performances, and also features backstage interviews from their Revenge Tour.

Lisa Canning

Her credits include Entertainment Tonight, co-host of "Knights and Warriors", the first season of Dancing with the Stars, Beyond With James Van Praagh (as the backstage interviewer/skeptic) and the Pax show Destination Stardom.

Mack Maine

In 2003, he placed 16th out of a thousand contestants in a freestyle battle hosted by MTV; this, combined with a backstage performance at the 2004 BET Awards with Cassidy,led him to becoming a founding member of Young Money Entertainment with Lil Wayne in 2005.

Marco Lui

He also collaborates actively with Fiorello, for which she cared for filming, directing and editing the backstage theater tour of Flower, and no one hundred thousand, in addition to the backstage of the program Viva Radio Due.

Me and Juliet

After Rodgers and Hammerstein had another hit with The King and I, Rodgers proposed the backstage project to his partner.

Nothing Is Sound

Recorded at Signature Sound, Big Fish, House of Cards Studio, Big Brown Sound, Starstruck Studio, The Pass, Stellenbosch Univ. S. Africa, and dingy backstage dressing rooms.

Paolo Pellegrin

In the same year he covered the aftermath of the Tsunami and hurricane Katrina and won two World Press Photo awards, one for his work on the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and another for the reportage on the backstage of fashion shows in NYC.

Quicken the Heart

The special edition contains the regular CD album along with a DVD titled Monument, which features a 68-minute long tour-film taken from the band's sold out show at Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena in December 2007, including live performances and exclusive backstage footage.

Rebecca DiPietro

She made her Deep South debut on September 3, 2006 in a backstage segment with Matt Striker, and from there began appearing in more segments and bikini contests.

Riley Cooper

A video surfaced in July 2013 of Cooper being denied backstage access at a Kenny Chesney concert and using the word "nigger" in reference to the bouncers.

Risin'

We see Natalia performing on the mainstage of Marktrock in Leuven and in the backstage preparing and give signatures to fans.

Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster

The project was delayed until 1990, when Fender presented Vaughan with three prototypes of his signature guitar on June 7, 1990, backstage at the taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Surf Ballroom

Backstage, in an area known as "The Green Room," acts that have played in the ballroom, such as Little River Band, Loverboy, The Righteous Brothers, The Temptations, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings and Bobby Rydell have signed their names on the whitewashed walls, as well as have had photos of themselves placed on a wall alongside those of early rock-and-roll pioneers.

The Slammer

Making three appearances in the opening credits of the first four series is British Illusionist Andrew Van Buren, presenting his version of the Miss Made Girl illusion, a flower production & "featured backstage" behind a piece of falling scenery.

Tommy Dysart

Tommy has enjoyed a long friendship and working relationship with director/writer Frank Howson in the movies Backstage, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, What The Moon Saw, Flynn, Crime Time, The Final Stage, The Lucky Country, and their most recent collaboration is the award winning film Remembering Nigel, which also stars Tommy's wife Joan and son Kole.

UFC 12

UFC 12 also marked the first appearance of commentator Joe Rogan, who handled backstage interviews for the event and interviewed the winners of the main events.

WCW Sin

Backstage, Goldberg and then-WCW CEO Ric Flair watched Totally Buffed's arrival followed by "Mean" Gene Okerlund interviewing Jeff Jarrett.

We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You

It contains a full live concert filmed at Brighton Dome in August 2004, featuring backstage footage and extras.

Wisdom in Chains

DVD contains live material (14 songs) recorded at show from May 2006 at Backstage Enterprises in Kingston, Pennsylvania, interview with Mad Joe Black and a three song recording from live performance at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.


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