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[eloquentice]

The theater job I just started has ended up being a lot more involved than it was supposed to be, so all my free time is being sucked into work. Which means that unfortunately, Weekly Bandom won't be going up today or tomorrow. Maybe I'll do one of those weird mid-week ones on Wednesday or something, I don't know. We'll see.

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[wbtym]

Work is a leech for time and energy. Just keep finding time to do stuff you enjoy or else the resentment sets in D:

[honeybearbee]

*hugs* I hope work slows down soon.

[razzlecupcake]

Ooh, theater? What are you doing? *bounces*

...it's possible that I'm geekier about stagehandery than I am bandom. And that's kind of hard to do, when I was telling the stagehands on the tour fun facts about MCR. *blushes*

[eloquentice]

Hooray for techies! I'm working on two things, kinda, allow me to ramble!

1. I'm a stage-manager generally, but the guy in charge of this little tiny theater knows I know enough about their light-board to run a simple show. And a director I've worked with before is doing this huge (as in timeline, not production value) project with some of the middle-schoolers, and needs a kind of all-purpose techie. So I was recruited to run the board (and run sound, and help design the lights as I see fit)! The thing is, Maya (the director) kind of... doesn't think small. So for this simple little show, she wants all this crazy complicated lighting. So now I get to figure out how to make it all happen on a small analog board \o/

2. I'm stagemanaging a production of Into The Woods this summer, and have some techie-wrangling to do, among other things. (I'm already so excited for that show, man oh man.)

[razzlecupcake]

*glee* *glee again* Okay, sorry. I'm an ex-stage manager, now lighting. (Didn't have the stable or the confidence for SM work.) I work for the IATSE in the CA Bay Area (in addition to freelance, no one can get enough work through the IA to pay the bills until they're like... 40). I am always so, so happy whenever people I meet outside of work are in the business, sorry. Because stagehands are the coolest people ever. :DD

Props to you for being able to handle the insanity that is SM. For serious. What types of venues do you work?

Whoa, a 2-scene preset? I am so, so sorry. I hope you at least have help with the hang and such... ETA: Wait. You are running a 2-scene AND the audio? I hope it's light (haha) on the audio side? Holy shenanigans!

Oooh! Into the Woods! CMT here just did that show, it was pretty cool. Techie wrangling? Like they need training or wut?

...I am such a dork for my profession. I guess I should be, I've committed myself to a life of poverty for the next ten years, I'd better like it. :P

[eloquentice]

I'm just out of high-school, taking a year off before college, so all the shows I've done have been youth theater, mainly in school theaters (since you're Bay Area, the schools Longfellow, Willard, and Berkeley High might mean something to you). This summer, for Into The Woods, we're working out of Julia Morgan. And no, techie wrangling as in actually figuring out who's doing this show, and whether those who said yes two months ago still mean yes (summer planning gets tricky).

As for the show right now... it is pretty easy audio-wise. We're not using any mics, so all I'd need to do is play some sound effects and a couple tracks of background music. But last night when I was sorting out the logistics of all the light cues (given that yeah, 2-scene preset=adventures) one of my more important dimmers died on me. I have some complicated manuvering that gets me around it, but it means I'm tracking down someone else to run the audio. They have a couple kids who are supposedly "tech" so I figure one of them could actually learn some real