Colorado, seriously??
Ok, you can stop anytime... I'm just saying.
Pueblo: Well, the show was shoe horned into a tiny little theatre. So small that our deck didn't fit. And a low ceiling, again. So we couldn't fly anything. Stage left got very interesting during the second act when we had to quick change while standing inside the judge's podium set piece. Our local crew had some great moments as well, including letting their phone ring on deck and then answering it...
The theatre itself is a “historic building', which means old and not updated with modern conveniences. There were no outlets in half the dressing rooms and in a 5 story building there were 4 bathrooms on 2 floors. Plus each floor had the same layout with concrete block walls painted the same shade of cream with no signs or visual reminders of what floor you were on. I would run to the third floor intending to check the second floor rooms, run back down one floor, forget something on the third floor and end up on the fourth floor. It was like being in an Escher painting.
We left in the middle of the night and drove up to Avon for our show today.
Avon is a lovely little ski town near Vail, all Swiss-ish chalets and mountains with scraps of snow on them. And then the theatre was 4 floors underground.
We loaded into an elevator – again the scenery and decking went piece by piece, which adds at least 2 hours to load in and at least an hour to load out.
And the show was a horrific disaster area. Our lead guy, who has been out of the show due to altitude sickness for the past 4 days, decided that even though we had ascended another 5,000 feet he could do the show because he had friends in the audience. He made it through part of the first act.
We then had to swing him out.
In the middle of the act.
Which puts our Franz actor on in his place, and our character man #1 into Franz and our swing into Character man #1. That's a heap of costumes to trade out in the middle of a show with 2 minutes of warning. We had to call a hold on the show because there wasn't enough time in the scene. It sucked. It also shook everyone else up and several other things went wrong all night. And then load out was the normal nightmare of trying to put everything back in the right place.
Meanwhile our follow spot operator, who is out toward the front of house , discovered at the beginning of the first act that his booth had no sound. The wires were cut when the air conditioning unit was fixed. So he called the whole first act by sight with no sound cues.
Argh. Colorado I am done with you! Tomorrow we fly to Bellingham and I get to see my family! hooray!
Pictures of some of this madness to follow...
xox
k
Pueblo: Well, the show was shoe horned into a tiny little theatre. So small that our deck didn't fit. And a low ceiling, again. So we couldn't fly anything. Stage left got very interesting during the second act when we had to quick change while standing inside the judge's podium set piece. Our local crew had some great moments as well, including letting their phone ring on deck and then answering it...
The theatre itself is a “historic building', which means old and not updated with modern conveniences. There were no outlets in half the dressing rooms and in a 5 story building there were 4 bathrooms on 2 floors. Plus each floor had the same layout with concrete block walls painted the same shade of cream with no signs or visual reminders of what floor you were on. I would run to the third floor intending to check the second floor rooms, run back down one floor, forget something on the third floor and end up on the fourth floor. It was like being in an Escher painting.
We left in the middle of the night and drove up to Avon for our show today.
Avon is a lovely little ski town near Vail, all Swiss-ish chalets and mountains with scraps of snow on them. And then the theatre was 4 floors underground.
We loaded into an elevator – again the scenery and decking went piece by piece, which adds at least 2 hours to load in and at least an hour to load out.
And the show was a horrific disaster area. Our lead guy, who has been out of the show due to altitude sickness for the past 4 days, decided that even though we had ascended another 5,000 feet he could do the show because he had friends in the audience. He made it through part of the first act.
We then had to swing him out.
In the middle of the act.
Which puts our Franz actor on in his place, and our character man #1 into Franz and our swing into Character man #1. That's a heap of costumes to trade out in the middle of a show with 2 minutes of warning. We had to call a hold on the show because there wasn't enough time in the scene. It sucked. It also shook everyone else up and several other things went wrong all night. And then load out was the normal nightmare of trying to put everything back in the right place.
Meanwhile our follow spot operator, who is out toward the front of house , discovered at the beginning of the first act that his booth had no sound. The wires were cut when the air conditioning unit was fixed. So he called the whole first act by sight with no sound cues.
Argh. Colorado I am done with you! Tomorrow we fly to Bellingham and I get to see my family! hooray!
Pictures of some of this madness to follow...
xox
k
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