taking a breath
Brundibar's finally out of the theater! YAY!!!
I was proud to get it in and very happy to get it out. Maintain that show was a beast. Heaven forbid a lamp went out over the two houses in the set or out over the orchestra pit - add up to 45 minutes to channel check time to be sure we've fixed it by the time house needs to open. Being a school, the student light designers got to play with the plot for a day. Guess what, the next day I find we don't have control over the tilt on the VL units. I ask my board op if he reloaded the show (he says yes), cycle power to the units several times, call the rental company and Varilite, then give up on them for the night. Next morning, go up to each unit in a Genie lift and test for tilt function which works fine. Go to light board and reload show myself - now everything's back to normal. GRRRRR. Lesson learned - do it yourself.
Most annoying thing to maintain was the excess hazer fluid on the MDG fogger. We hung it on a shelf above stage right to keep it off the floor. But it would drip regularly. Turns out some of the hazer fluid recondenses around the unit. So we wrapped plastic around the bottom and added a tube for drainage. One night a corner of the plastic let go and a puddle of hazer fluid fell to the deck, luckily missing actors and kids below. Turns out the tube drainage system wasn't working so well so we have to "Burp" the plastic under the shelf every couple of days as well as use a towel to help mop up the extra fluid in the shelf. Yuckkky.
Now I'm loading in a Verse Project. It's a Shakespeare show "Julius Caesar", done by the grad students with a very small budget and limited hours and only has four performances. We're also teching Rep 5, "Dance of the Holy Ghosts" which Jennifer Tipton is designing. Ms. Tipton reminds me of a friendly grandmother type now, although I wouldn't wanna get on the wrong side of her temper. My co-worker and I are looking forward to loading in Mabou Minds at the end of this month. They're doing "Dollhouse" with physically tall women and short men as performers. That'll be a sight to see.
I'm also trying to settle what summer will be for me. Wish me luck on Monday as I interview at one of my dream places to work at. It's only two hours away from New Haven!
As a parting pic, here's a strange combo of things to have in a store together - scrapbooking and Nascar Racing.
I was proud to get it in and very happy to get it out. Maintain that show was a beast. Heaven forbid a lamp went out over the two houses in the set or out over the orchestra pit - add up to 45 minutes to channel check time to be sure we've fixed it by the time house needs to open. Being a school, the student light designers got to play with the plot for a day. Guess what, the next day I find we don't have control over the tilt on the VL units. I ask my board op if he reloaded the show (he says yes), cycle power to the units several times, call the rental company and Varilite, then give up on them for the night. Next morning, go up to each unit in a Genie lift and test for tilt function which works fine. Go to light board and reload show myself - now everything's back to normal. GRRRRR. Lesson learned - do it yourself.
Most annoying thing to maintain was the excess hazer fluid on the MDG fogger. We hung it on a shelf above stage right to keep it off the floor. But it would drip regularly. Turns out some of the hazer fluid recondenses around the unit. So we wrapped plastic around the bottom and added a tube for drainage. One night a corner of the plastic let go and a puddle of hazer fluid fell to the deck, luckily missing actors and kids below. Turns out the tube drainage system wasn't working so well so we have to "Burp" the plastic under the shelf every couple of days as well as use a towel to help mop up the extra fluid in the shelf. Yuckkky.
Now I'm loading in a Verse Project. It's a Shakespeare show "Julius Caesar", done by the grad students with a very small budget and limited hours and only has four performances. We're also teching Rep 5, "Dance of the Holy Ghosts" which Jennifer Tipton is designing. Ms. Tipton reminds me of a friendly grandmother type now, although I wouldn't wanna get on the wrong side of her temper. My co-worker and I are looking forward to loading in Mabou Minds at the end of this month. They're doing "Dollhouse" with physically tall women and short men as performers. That'll be a sight to see.
I'm also trying to settle what summer will be for me. Wish me luck on Monday as I interview at one of my dream places to work at. It's only two hours away from New Haven!
As a parting pic, here's a strange combo of things to have in a store together - scrapbooking and Nascar Racing.
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