'Looking for a hardbody:' Truck search consumes prep for Pit and Balcony musical - The Saginaw News
The modern musical, based on a documentary of the same name, centers around a competition in which 10 contestants try to keep their hands on a truck the longest. The last person with a hand on the truck gets to take it home. To put on the show, you need a truck. Garber, a sponsor of the show, owns Garber Nissan and several other local dealerships. "He was willing to let us use a brand new Nissan truck," Humphreys said. Until, that is, theater building operations manager Gary Reid asked how much the shiny new truck weighs. Tipping the scales at 4,700 pounds, the stage can't support the truck. "They came back, and they said 'no. '". After the stage assessment, the search for a lighter truck was on. "We decided we were going to find an actual hardbody," Humphreys said. The term "hardbody" refers to the Nissan D21 series of trucks produced in the 1980s and 1990s. Although a hardbody weighs less than the brand new truck offered up by Garber, Humphreys and Reid realized that even a smaller truck would exceed the... Giorgis told the duo he didn't have any "hardbody" trucks on his lot. Source: www.mlive.com
