It has come to my attention via Twitter that The Metropolitan Opera is allowing publicists on stage. <\/p>\n
OK, OK – so it’s just one really, really important and fancy publicist who actually handles The Met’s press, but if you think that’s stopping me from yearning\/lobbying for a La Boh<\/i>\u00e8me<\/i> walk-on townsperson, working girl, or shopkeeper<\/a> role, you, sir or madam, are sorely mistaken. <\/p>\n Naturally, his appearance made it into the press. From Page Six<\/a> of the New York Post:<\/i><\/p>\n Public relations legend Howard Rubenstein<\/strong> made his Right, so, I’m around if you need me. And if I don’t get the call this time around, maybe Nico<\/a> will let me stand behind a tree or something in his opera<\/a>. Though I’d like to be a working girl standing behind a tree, if it’s all the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has come to my attention via Twitter that The Metropolitan Opera is allowing publicists on stage. OK, OK – so it’s just one really, really important and fancy publicist who actually handles The Met’s press, but if you think that’s stopping me from yearning\/lobbying for a La Boh\u00e8me walk-on townsperson, working girl, or shopkeeper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMetropolitan Opera debut Saturday in the season premiere of Puccini’s
\n“La Boheme” (pictured above during Thursday’s dress rehearsal).
\nReliving fond memories of being a walk-on in operas during his college
\ndays in Philadelphia, Rubenstein appears as a “super” in the famous
\nmarket scene in Act 2. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n