Today's been really chill and I'm super enjoying it. We were called at 9 instead of 8, so I got to sleep alittle longer. Sean and I went early to Jack's Cafe which is across the street from our theatre. It wasreally cheap and super delicous and the employees were amazingly friendly. It was great to start the day off with a solid breakfast. Anyway, that's slightly off topic of the work day.
So we got in at 9, talked for a bit about the day, and then jumped right in to the set up for Khmeropedies, the show that is up for preview tonight. We had to move the horsecock on the 1st electric because it was bumping lights (great name for the giant cord, right?), which involved a ton of breasting of other battons and re-picking and tying ad everything. Tedious, really. We rehung some of the legs and then "dressed" them, which basically means you fold the bottom under so it stays straight and pretty. I'd never done that before but it has a neat, clean effect. Once that was done, we added some side gels to the deck lights to stop the bleed, pit some black duvetine on the outside doors so the sunlight wouldn't come in. I guess that's the standard black fabric that they use to cover over things that need to be blacked, but still accessible. We just pull black fabric from the costume shop generally...I didn't know there was something specific you were supposed to use. We did some other minor tasks as well, but nothing too new or strenuous. It was nice, and relaxing.
After that, they started dry teching,testing, and cuing the show. Sean is programming and opperating this one so I was just on standby and I got to work on my pickle. I hate designing...it's not really my strong point and I don't like struggling for ideas. But the show I am doing the first pickle for - County of Kings - gave me some really cool ideas and I can't wait. It's about a New York native who grew up getting in to trouble, doing drugs, drinking, getting thrown in jail, and living on the streets. His set is a lot of black metal - some huge trusses and black metal caging on the bottom. So I have two black stands to weight down and string the pickle across the middle. Then, either I am going to carve the show title in to two pickles and string them across, or I am going to hang a scroll-type thing with the title in between two pickles (one on top and one on bottom), so they light up the scroll. It's going to look sweet. So I have three hours to eat and then head back to the theater to work on that. Then, at 8pm, I have to get back to work. We have to switch the theater over to the County of Kings show so we can focus and tech it in the morning. That show runs at noon and I am light oping, so that should be a busy morning (and fun because I get to display my pickle!) and then we do Taylor Mac at night, so I'll just be hanging out. I think I might stay and watch the show. Or work on the Khmeropedies pickle - I'm not sure what I am doing with that one though. So yeah, easy night, early morning, long day tomorrow. Let's do it.
So we got in at 9, talked for a bit about the day, and then jumped right in to the set up for Khmeropedies, the show that is up for preview tonight. We had to move the horsecock on the 1st electric because it was bumping lights (great name for the giant cord, right?), which involved a ton of breasting of other battons and re-picking and tying ad everything. Tedious, really. We rehung some of the legs and then "dressed" them, which basically means you fold the bottom under so it stays straight and pretty. I'd never done that before but it has a neat, clean effect. Once that was done, we added some side gels to the deck lights to stop the bleed, pit some black duvetine on the outside doors so the sunlight wouldn't come in. I guess that's the standard black fabric that they use to cover over things that need to be blacked, but still accessible. We just pull black fabric from the costume shop generally...I didn't know there was something specific you were supposed to use. We did some other minor tasks as well, but nothing too new or strenuous. It was nice, and relaxing.
After that, they started dry teching,testing, and cuing the show. Sean is programming and opperating this one so I was just on standby and I got to work on my pickle. I hate designing...it's not really my strong point and I don't like struggling for ideas. But the show I am doing the first pickle for - County of Kings - gave me some really cool ideas and I can't wait. It's about a New York native who grew up getting in to trouble, doing drugs, drinking, getting thrown in jail, and living on the streets. His set is a lot of black metal - some huge trusses and black metal caging on the bottom. So I have two black stands to weight down and string the pickle across the middle. Then, either I am going to carve the show title in to two pickles and string them across, or I am going to hang a scroll-type thing with the title in between two pickles (one on top and one on bottom), so they light up the scroll. It's going to look sweet. So I have three hours to eat and then head back to the theater to work on that. Then, at 8pm, I have to get back to work. We have to switch the theater over to the County of Kings show so we can focus and tech it in the morning. That show runs at noon and I am light oping, so that should be a busy morning (and fun because I get to display my pickle!) and then we do Taylor Mac at night, so I'll just be hanging out. I think I might stay and watch the show. Or work on the Khmeropedies pickle - I'm not sure what I am doing with that one though. So yeah, easy night, early morning, long day tomorrow. Let's do it.
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