[NickJones]

This could be long.....
This is a standard manual, and I have no idea what concepts you are both familiar with.
Lets ignore the setup as I assume if you are opping for this show you will have some idea of how everything is set up, or it is set up for you, so lets go with preset mode...

Press Up until the (little) screen shows the letter P, it will flash for a few seconds then stay on the letter P now your console is in preset mode, the simplest form of light control.

Now your lighting console is slit in two, the top half and the bottom half of that big row of faders. This is known as bank A (top row of faders) & bank B (bottom row of sliders).
Now to bring up the masters, you have 3 masters, the Grand Master, this controls everything, and bringing that down to 0% will bring your whole rig down to 0%. So make sure that is up to 100%. Now to the right of that are two faders labeled A & B, if you set up a "look" on preset A (The top bunch of faders) and bring the fader marked A near the Grand Master up, this will bring up the lights you selected on preset A, and if you set up a look on the bottom (B) and bring down A master, then bring up B master, the lights will change. This is the simplest form of control.

Chuck wanted fade times, you can control them with your finger. the faster you push up the fader, the faster the lights go up.

Hope I cleared some stuff up, if you want to know how to set it up, and stuff like that, I can explain that.

Nick