Get to work!

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Visited the theater yesterday evening and discovered that they have next to nothing in the house. I cut the plot by around a third, altered what was left to try to use the oldest lights in the world, and they arranged to rent around 60 Source Fours from somewhere in town. All of this two days before the show. Why would it have been so difficult to send that inventory to me two months ago? It's not like there was much typing involved.

Anyway it's now 7:30am and the idea is that all equipment arrives today, we load in the show, focus it, and hopefully write some cues. That would be ambitious even with an American crew that I knew well, who spoke my language and with a lighting console that I knew how to use (and which also spoke English). We'll see how it goes.

Meanwhile, here is the group, on the way to dinner last night...

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Comments

[tammy watson]

hey crew, ...reminds me of an old adage at the hospital "We have done so much, ....for so long,...with so little,... that we now feel we can do absolutely ANYTHING with nothing!!!" A thought that comes to mind is "low expectations" which could be good!!! A chance to relax,...go easy on your selves, etc. I hear ya on the technical aspects of the job,... lacking in the expertise we come to expect,...and the needed equipment. On a brighter note,...it looks as tho it may be a great opportunity to get a crew over there to wire that place, get it set up, etc. The crew looks as tho they've had some rest,...and are adjusting accordingly to being away from home. So,...just wondering have you all received "The American Welcome,"....folks abroad seem to be enamored with folks from The U.S.!!!! smiles, -t-