Mikey Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Up her at Scottish Opera I'm right in the middle of Wagners 'Ring' (fnar fnar),16 hours of heavy operatic nonsense with not much performance flying, the only 'excitement' being the changeovers, with nowt else to do but mess round on t'internet. Is anyone else working on or has worked on a more depressing & dull show? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James C Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 DSM'd a 2-hour 1960's comedy. 9 sound cues, 2 actors' cuelights and about 10 lx cues :o . The show was great, but hard to keep interest over the tour's duration :D . Oh - and at Liverpool Empire (2800 seats as I recall) we did a Saturday matinee to 40 people :o ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spock Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Just started a production of Henry IV Part 2. One sound cue, page 210 of script. Play ends on page 214. Very hard to stay awake for this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lightnix Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 You think those shows are bad ? You should try conferencing ! Hour after mind-numbing hour of "vertically integrated" this, "customer led" that and "tax efficient" the other, recited in monotones by men in grey suits, with the crew stuck in full view of the punters. I did a financial analysts show a while back. There was a satellite link to New York (full video), backed up by an emergency ISDN landline (11 frames per second). Half way through the show we lost the satellite and had to switch to the ISDN. Nobody in NY noticed the difference because the presenter was so inanimate - his lips moved, but that was about all :o Things are occasionally livened up by the odd shareholder revolt at an AGM, but they are few and far between and we all know how they are going to end anyway. Then there's the utter tedium of often having to wait three months for two day's pay, but that's another rant - don't even get me started on that one :D Wagner's Ring ? I dream of doing Wagner's Ring (chortle chortle). At least you get something to sing along with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 In the midst of teching 'Summerfolk' at college. 3 hour long show (+ interval). 3 scene changes. That's it. I'm contemplating throwing myself off the fly floor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirdtap Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 'LoTechnically not a show but I have been involved in a few long events such as dance schools shows. Rough timetable get to the venue at 8ish in the morning, which is enough of a shock await for the first group to turn up. Group arrive 8.05 go to dressing rooms, get on stage aorund 10ish ready to rehearse at 10.30. One run through later having been given four pages of notes from the director, the third group arrive wanting to get onstage straight away. Start tech / run through for the third group. Question my maths and work out group two is missing. Spend at least 5 seconds on this problem then spend 2 minutes worrying that it was 3.5 seconds too long. Then parents start dropping kids off for another group but no adults...ho hum. Dance school teacher turns up a hour later having gone to the wrong theatre. Experience a force 7 faff storm because principal kids have gone on holiday. Go for a run through of their 'section'. Feeling hungry but unable to leave because you are operating sound - different tracks of several CD's and tapes throughout this piece. Can't operate sound due to lack of food, start eating the desk manual foriegn sections first, German tastes ok but I think the Spanish part has gone off. At this point someone brings you a cup of tea which you have to drink really quickly because you have to pull seats out/ clear up / finish off the run through for group two. Pause for breath and start the show.Show goes ok no one notices the wreck in the corner. Having just read this I can understand that I am not alone working on these shows. Ho hum... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey Posted June 16, 2003 Author Share Posted June 16, 2003 Bloody typical, sat on me arse all morning drinking coffee, then just before lunch they want to do that one fly cue that requires 5 flymen to do it......and still up to my neck in Wagners Ring.... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 'LoTechnically not a show but I have been involved in a few long events such as dance schools shows.Oh God….. Haven't we all been there??!! :o My "favourite" was the tape that needed to be louder ½ way through. On the recording you could hear the dance teacher walking across the room to pick up the ghetto blaster to put it nearer the "HiFi" speaker….. :o Or the sudden, unexpected (not entirely, but that’s a long story involving burnt out terminals and an RCD on the feed to the dimmers) DBO just as the kiddies had formed their human pyramid. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Has the run through finished yet??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 You think those shows are bad ? You should try conferencing ! That sounds as bad as media training, Again not Theatre but still, an 8 hour day waiting for some dry experts or bods to be trained on how to look acceptable in fromt of a camera, That is they disapear into the training room for hours, apearing every so often in the studio where we have to go through each one in turn, normaly exactly the same interview trying to make a 1 on 1 interview look good with two cameras. Then they disapear and train only to re-apear a few more times to do the same interview yet again with the same person answering the same questions in a slightly different way. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 'LoTechnically not a show but I have been involved in a few long events such as dance schools shows. <Snippy snippy snip snip>You are not alone on these shows - spotted one of these a while back, which required rehersals from 9am (Hello, are you mad? I'm never awake and being in a position to remember stuff at that time!) running through each piece twice (i.e. group 1 rehersal 1+2, group 2 rehersal 1+2 etc) til about 6.30ish - Have some dinner and come back for the show at 7.30pm and realise that despite your deatiled notes, you've forogtten everything you've seen at 9am in the morning, and blind panic sets in as you desperately try to randomly create some ques. Mind you by the time it got to the fifth or sixth piece the spotting is much, much, much better as it was about 2 or 3pm when I'd rehersed them! Result! Stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketil B Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Shetland bible week :o yes 5 days of the most mind-numingly boring people specking about the most boring parts of a book that can be good. the best thing is the down lighter on the cut-flowers. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 I did a conferencing job once where I had to arrive at 6am to a Plasma screen that had been setup the day before. I was planning to turn it on and connect the client's laptop, but he had got there before me, and had already done it. Then I sat in an adjacent room, and waited for it to go wrong. It didn't. Re-entered the room at 9pm, to find the client had disconnected his laptop, and turned the Plasma off. The plasma was in use the next day, so I left it as it was, and went home... Easiest/most boring money I ever earned.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Out of interest - what would you have done if it had gone wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 Sent out for another one...and used my amazing calming powers on the client. "Dont worry, it'll be fine..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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