Today was another easy day. I was out late socializing and talking with my house mates so I tried to sleep in. But I still got up at 8:30 or 9. once you're in the swing of getting up early, sleeping in doesn't mean much. But I still got to hang around and relax.
I went to the Robinson at 12:30 to do the change over from Khmeropedies to County of Kings. Sean bet Jarrod dinner that we would get it perfect this time. I got all my stuff done and double checked it. I'm to the point that I know which gel colors go where and I know exactly which circuits change. I just use my paperwork to double check. I triple checked the things that I'd missed yesterday. As I was moving Sean down the 1st electric in the genie so he could do the gel change there, Jarrod walked around and checked everything, trying to catch hiccups before the circuit check. He didn't seem to find any, so I felt pretty awesome.
I went to the board and we started doing the circuit check. I got kind of cocky with my fast programming fingers, and I started screwing up the typing so I had to slow down and get everything accurate (hey, whatdaya know?) but everything went smoothly. There was one light that didn't come on, and Sean almost owed Jarrod dinner, but it was a loose connection in the wires. The cables were all plugged in and in the right spot but the light didn't come one. that shows the importance of doing the circuit check, instead of just checking the plugs and the gels by sight and moving on.
So we had a basically perfect change over. We were done a little after 2.
County of Kings went smoothly as well. The stage manager wanted to run a few cues, and then we went right to house open. We did the show and the audience was really good tonight. I only missed one cue. I zoned out and didn't hear him call it. But we covered it well. No worries. The change over went amazingly fast in to Taylor Mac. There were not circuit or gel problems - just one light was bumped from it's focus. So we had 2 perfect changeovers tonight. Jeff was having problems with his sound stuff, but Andrew let the rest of us go since we couldn't really be of any help to him.
Tonight was another early night off. Tomorrow will be another late morning in. Then I guess, since there's no Taylor Mac show, we're going to hang out and watch movies and then strike until midnight. It should be a pretty easy going night. Tuesday we don't have any shows. Wednesday, 13 Most Beautiful opens (so I'll have another pickle to do!) and then we are in to the 3rd rep. 3rd rep well be a lot simpler than the first, and lot more spaced out. It should be nice. Hopefully I can apply everything I've learned to the second load in/load out. It'll be a nice test.
In other news, we got to talking about what everyone on our crew is doing after the festival. It seemed odd to me. I'm going back to Michigan and I'm going back to school. I have no summer shows officially lined up, and then the fall season and fall classes and craziness of Roberts Fellows begins. But I left it at returning to school when I answered the question. I guess I hadn't really let it settle in that these are the actual jobs of the people who work here. They do theatre for a living. After the festival is over, they probably have some other form of theatre lined up and waiting for them. Katie is working for TTS, so she is going to stay in Charleston and work as a painter on American Idiot and some other Broadway shows. These people are really making a living doing what they love to do...It's awesome. I can't wait for the day that my answer consists of a list of shows and jobs that I have lined up. I still find it really daunting when I think about the people that I am meeting and working with. But it's really exciting too.
I went to the Robinson at 12:30 to do the change over from Khmeropedies to County of Kings. Sean bet Jarrod dinner that we would get it perfect this time. I got all my stuff done and double checked it. I'm to the point that I know which gel colors go where and I know exactly which circuits change. I just use my paperwork to double check. I triple checked the things that I'd missed yesterday. As I was moving Sean down the 1st electric in the genie so he could do the gel change there, Jarrod walked around and checked everything, trying to catch hiccups before the circuit check. He didn't seem to find any, so I felt pretty awesome.
I went to the board and we started doing the circuit check. I got kind of cocky with my fast programming fingers, and I started screwing up the typing so I had to slow down and get everything accurate (hey, whatdaya know?) but everything went smoothly. There was one light that didn't come on, and Sean almost owed Jarrod dinner, but it was a loose connection in the wires. The cables were all plugged in and in the right spot but the light didn't come one. that shows the importance of doing the circuit check, instead of just checking the plugs and the gels by sight and moving on.
So we had a basically perfect change over. We were done a little after 2.
County of Kings went smoothly as well. The stage manager wanted to run a few cues, and then we went right to house open. We did the show and the audience was really good tonight. I only missed one cue. I zoned out and didn't hear him call it. But we covered it well. No worries. The change over went amazingly fast in to Taylor Mac. There were not circuit or gel problems - just one light was bumped from it's focus. So we had 2 perfect changeovers tonight. Jeff was having problems with his sound stuff, but Andrew let the rest of us go since we couldn't really be of any help to him.
Tonight was another early night off. Tomorrow will be another late morning in. Then I guess, since there's no Taylor Mac show, we're going to hang out and watch movies and then strike until midnight. It should be a pretty easy going night. Tuesday we don't have any shows. Wednesday, 13 Most Beautiful opens (so I'll have another pickle to do!) and then we are in to the 3rd rep. 3rd rep well be a lot simpler than the first, and lot more spaced out. It should be nice. Hopefully I can apply everything I've learned to the second load in/load out. It'll be a nice test.
In other news, we got to talking about what everyone on our crew is doing after the festival. It seemed odd to me. I'm going back to Michigan and I'm going back to school. I have no summer shows officially lined up, and then the fall season and fall classes and craziness of Roberts Fellows begins. But I left it at returning to school when I answered the question. I guess I hadn't really let it settle in that these are the actual jobs of the people who work here. They do theatre for a living. After the festival is over, they probably have some other form of theatre lined up and waiting for them. Katie is working for TTS, so she is going to stay in Charleston and work as a painter on American Idiot and some other Broadway shows. These people are really making a living doing what they love to do...It's awesome. I can't wait for the day that my answer consists of a list of shows and jobs that I have lined up. I still find it really daunting when I think about the people that I am meeting and working with. But it's really exciting too.
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