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So I have an unusual problem with my MR16 strips. One of the three sections has stopped working. One of the cells has an led indicator lit to tell us there is a problem but I can't find one. It does not work on a dimmer or hot patch. It is not the lamp because I have tried lamps that I...

My stage manager and I caught a home made gobo on fire once. Both of us were new and thankfully were watching the gobo to see what pattern would be created by our find in the depths of a supply drawer. After a few minutes of admiration we noticed the smoke. We had put it in BACKWARDS. The gobos...

We have rules about no food in the suditorium but they aren't enforced on the tech crew since more than half of us spend our entire day here on show nights. From when school starts at 7:25 to 10 at night or later. The actors can have food in their dressing rooms. That's their own responsibility...

I use a two scene board by them sometime and an Omega 2 the rest of the time. I had been having some problems with Omega 2 but most of them are better now. Also my school has their twilight boxes at least thats what we call them. They have a pre programmed set of lights so the actors and...

No we only have a center cluster. The entire system is pretty old and neither school or the drama department is about to spring for the money to upgrade.

I've talked to one of the many adults who help set up the mikes. The recievers are about 70 ft from the stage with no walls in between them. The speakers are poorly placed they are too far upstage. So when people move under the speakers they loop. The mic packs are on the waist of the actors...

We had some fun things that our Crew used during the last few shows: +"Your breathing privileges have been revoked." (we had one actor who breathed directly into his mike when singing, since he was the leaad he had the most sensitive mike. Boy that was fun to listen to.) +"Your speaking...

My High School is looking to buy new body mics. Right now we're using lapel mics that have a problem with signals because our Theater is poorly designed. They just don't cut it for the musicals we've been doing. They clip and loop with our speakers. Any suggestions for new mics?

All the advice said is very good and some of it my own SM shuld try some of it. The one thing I do know is that you don't mess with what the director want when it's a high school play. If she wants you to call places than you have to and especially in the case of our own director. The tech crew...

That's really funny. And sounds like what happened when I did lights for Little Shop of Horrors. We had four plants for when the plant was growing. And the tech crew believes it was the Actors joke for the final run but some how all four made it on stage at once! Thank god that the play was at...