Recent content by Rockey

No, it didn't go solo. All of the fixtures actually had a different address than the one I set them to. I addressed them at "19" and they all said "294" when I checked them. My first response was to hope it was a fluke and I readdressed them all back to "19" and continued rehearsal. They soon...

A zip-line from the booth to the stage. Or a transporter. It's just too hard to fight the crowd during intermission, before/after shows, etc or to get to the stage REALLY quickly when something goes terribly wrong. This also applies to the catwalks.

Can anyone help? A long-term client of our performing arts center just purchased eight Design LED 36 Pro fixtures by Elation for weekly use on softgoods in their church services. Our initial use of them last Sunday yielded great results, no problems. Today I used them for a second time and the...

Thank you everyone for your help. I love the acid idea, but I have no qualms with this actress, and I'd hate to ruin a perfectly good costume. ;) Anyway, I'd been planning on the wagon with a trap door idea, but making it appear smooth enough was a concern. I guess the main thing here is to...

Thank you everyone for your help. These are some fanatastic ideas! :grin:

Another Oz question... for those of you who have done the Wizard of Oz... how have you melted the witch at the end? I know that there are a lot of options with smoke, trap doors, etc. But I'm wondering specifically what other people have used and if anyone had any ingenious ideas that looked...

Can anyone help me with some good ideas for an effect in our production of the Wizard of Oz? First of all, we are not flying any actors in this production... at all. But... The director would really love some kind of effect to look like the balloon with the wizard in the end is actually flying...