Archive for the ‘Lighting’ Category
Summer Season Winding Down…
It’s been a pretty busy summer for me lighting wise. Thanks to Rhino, I was on several concerts this year, including Toby Keith, The Scorpions, Earth Wind and Fire and also Brad Paisley. IATSE contacted me to help out with Lady Gaga and Carrie Underwood but I was unavailable. On the theater side, I’m currently [...]
Rhino Staging
I just got hired on with Rhino Staging to do crew work on shows all around the local area (Portland, OR and Washington venues) Unfortunately they don’t do productions but they do supply crew and operators for a lot of big acts, so I’m looking forward to getting to know some more locals in the [...]
An Evening with Groucho
I had the good fortune to be tapped by CTPA to light Frank Ferrante’s “An Evening with Groucho.” (Thanks, Kelly!) It was a relatively simple plot to come up with based on his needs and the cues he provided us with. Rick from CTPA did me a huge favor and hung the plot, and I [...]
No Opera wraps up!
We just wrapped up a very successful run of No Opera at the Op’ry House Tonight! at Love’s Street Playhouse. We all had a lot of fun, very few technical difficulties and the cast and crew managed to keep things going strong even when the majority of us got sick in the last week of [...]
Cabaret!
Spent the day loading in and focusing Cabaret at CTPA and had a really good time. Once that was done the patch was set up and the show was ready to go. There was some last minute panic because of a weird problem with the fire alarms in the air handlers triggering the house lights [...]
It’s a lighting weekend
Spent a good chunk of Saturday prepping fixtures at CTPA for Cabaret which loads in Thursday morning. We have a bunch of new ETC Source4′s and they all needed bench-focusing. We also pulled all the existing fixtures down and benched them as well, including a ton of older 6×9 and 6×16 Altman’s. Today we’ll begin [...]
Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts – Grand Reopening
Jeff and Melinda Leuthold of Love Street Playhouse invited me to join them and their daughter Ellen for a trip up to Longview, Washington to check out the grand re-opening of the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts. I immediately fell in love with the space. It was built in 1925, almost demolished in the [...]
A Christmas Pudding
We were able to convince Melinda over at Love Street that she needed a show for Christmas this year (It’s A Wonderful Life was wonderful last year) so in short order she was able to put together A Christmas Pudding, which was a show with actors reading different Christmas themed monologues, along with choir pieces [...]
Steel Magnolias – Track lighting, anyone?!
Just wrapped up a wonderful production of Steel Magnolias at Love Street. We had a blast and the ladies did a great job. The show turned out to be very popular and we had a lot of full houses. During the show strike we all took turns putting on wigs and getting our photos taken [...]
It’s A Wonderful Life
Christmas was a lot of fun this year with the Love Street production of ‘It’s A Wonderful Life – A Radio Play’ – It’s always fun to do a production for Christmas and this year was no exception. From a lighting perspective it was mostly a simple wash with a few practicals and specials as [...]
