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).
