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Old July 20th, 2007, 04:59 PM
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Default Re: How do you keep your Black Box theater between shows

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Originally Posted by jonhirsh View Post
At CalArts we strip all are theatres back to a zero affter every show.
This means no house lights, no fixtures, no cable. All thats left are the raceways and grid.
JH
I'm not a huge fan of a complete strip down. I prefer a return to a basic plot with getting semi-stripped... as in hanging on a batten that isn't too far away. On one hand you'll just have to pull all the instruments and cable the next time you hang. On the other hand you don't want to have to spend a lot of time hauling things in and out of storage. My catwalks have a great perimeter hand rail that will hang lights not in use really well and they will be barely visible from below. The question is how to build a cable rack in the catwalks... Have to think that one over.

Anybody got a storage rack in their catwalks?
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