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Project a black and white photo of flowers or other stylized image on a screen with the singer on a stool in front with a spot and colored back light.

In my experience students tend to be unreliable. If we still had a theatre tech class I think they would treat the job with more professionalism. As a volunteer club, they tend to be in it for the camaraderie and snacks.

In the same boat, my friend, on our FOH catwalk. Confunds everyone.

We have had similar issues with our lights dimming to black and back to full repeatedly on their own (ETC Express 48/96, ETC Sensor dimmer rack). ETC tech support was a big help. We ended up having to disconnect all of our wall button stations to reboot them. That fixed the problem. It has...

I manage a 700 seat high school performing arts center that is in it's 18th year and Joe's list here is literally everything I am dealing with right now in terms of replacement needs. I would add the cost to replace the speaker array. I think it's great that they are planning for the future.

Our high school did Willy Wonka last year on an extremely low budget, so no chocolate fountain. We simulated a chocolate river by having 2 stage hands ripple a long swath of brown silk charmeuse across the stage. When it was time for Augustus to get sucked into the pipe he disappeared under...