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December 1, 2008

Tech Day 1

I call this: On the Road Again,theatre — Posted by KP @ 3:18 pm

We’re on the dinner break of our first day of tech.  We have a two hour break, which is very luxurious for us, as most of our rehearsals have been six hour blocks.  I’m currently sitting in the green room, where a number of crazy and humorous things are going on.

Our staff rep director, Ian, who is also our only understudy, is running lines with our company manager, Emma.  The other cast members sitting around playing cards, drinking coffee and generally hanging out are having fun shouting out lines to him.

Our production manager, Joel walks in with the business end of a noose, and asks Ron, who is one of the two actors who gets hung, if he has a moment to be sized.

Over the monitor in the greenroom we can hear our sound designer testing cues on stage.

Tech is going a little slowly, but no crises have come up.  There’s some preliminary talk of eliminating some parts of the set because it currently appears to be too complex to set up in the time we will generally have for load-ins, and with the traveling crew we will have.  That’s a discussion that’s still in progress though.

I have a lot of room at the tech table.  I have almost a whole table to myself, easily 4ft of space that is completely mine.   I think we have about 18 straight feet of tech table for stage management, lighting and sound, which is the longest unbroken expanse of tech table I’ve ever had.  Our director and staff rep director have another table a short distance away.

We have 3 wireless headsets, and a two-channel system.  It’s a nice little setup.  The only problem that has come up is that there’s something weird with the volume on the headsets, at least at my base station — instead of going from off to loud, the knob allows me to adjust from loud to really loud.  When I try to use my personal headset, which has an omnidirectional mic, it feeds back.  The gain setting on the back of the main box is already on “low.”   Tim, our sound supervisor, could not immediately figure out a solution, but I hope that we will discover one eventually.   Until then I have to wear this gigantic ear-enclosing football-helmet type thing, which can only be worn on the left ear.  It sucks royally.

That’s about all that’s happening so far!


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