Recent content by otto

Oh my GOD. The whole darn* theatre. My TD could complain* for hours (HOURS) about our lousy* architect. To give you an idea of what an prick* this man was, our ORCHESTRA PIT is too shallow. TOO. SHALLOW. The Cello and Bass players STUCK OUT last show. Agh. In terms of equipment, though...

Sorry, that was me. I was too stupid to log in first. Heh.

Right on. We once had our "artistic" (read: Control Freak) director tell our lighting tech to tone down a sunrise he designed because it was "upstaging the actors." Haha. Awesome compliment, in a way. Stupid director. She used to catalog shop for set pieces...argh. She'd flip through...

Isopropyl works just fine; usually, touching lamps isn't a problem, as most come packaged in special thin mattress-foamy type stuff, and you can install them without really needing to touch them with bare hands. If anyone's got the time (and money to throw away) and is bored enough, you...

Nonono. You tell them to sit on a pipe while you're reweighting it, until you can "find some sandbags." Let it run away two or three feet (but catch it before they DIE). Heh. Nice tech version of chicken. Also, have a 9v battery licking contest-- most in fifteen minutes wins. Prize for numbest...

Haha, nice. We've got a special (carpeted!) room under the stairs just for late-night iniquity. Very enjoyable. I started my own tradition as board op (once I got comfy with how relaxed/careless I could be around the board, and the LD got used to me) of bringing a HUGE slurpee up to the booth...

We did a production of Pericles, and our TD wanted Diana to fly (straight up, nothing fancy, but pretty cool fx-wise for our otherwise kosher use of pipes). I'm the smallest kid on crew (under 100 lbs), so guess who got strapped into a moutaineering harness that was aircraft cabled to an iffy...

Haha, thanks. Beating them with safety cables isn't that much fun though. What's fun is threatening to dangle them from the catwalk...heh heh. Pranks are nice, too.

My two favorite phrases (from my least favorite director): "EVERYBODY PANIC! NOBODY RELAX!" (to crew, during tech-in) "Maaaaake it SUCK less!" Oh, no, she di'n't.

Hahaha, classic. Another good one (if you're working in an OLD theatre and have really old gels lying around) is to tell the newb to rinse off the gels. "You did WHAT to our gels?" "I...uh..." "It's fine, it's fine. Did you use the wrong kind of soap? Oh, you used the wrong kind of soap. Try...

Hiya! I'm Otto, a junior at Blair High School, just outside of DC. I've done theatre for the past three schoolyears and two summers. We're working on the the (early)spring musical right now, Once Upon a Mattress, and I'm LD....eek. I'm here to pick up any insight, wisdom, or whatever you want to...