Recent content by theatreguy

Well, we were looking at doing a haunted house thing in the next year or 2. So far, its not going anywhere. I think the overall feeling is to pass it to a museum or something similar then just scrapping it out for scrap metal and copper. I will definitely update this thread when I find out the...

I have been puzzling over that label myself for the entire past 5 years I have been volunteering there. Unfortunately there is no one around anymore that can explain that label or what it might have meant. Best guess it was the switch for the power in a bathroom at some point in time? Otherwise...

In a theatre I volunteer at built in 1927, we just had the misfortune of a pipe bursting in the floor above the old distribution panel and it get water damaged and the last few circuits routed through it had to be bypassed from the old beast I've always called the "Frankenstein Panel". All I...

Holy cow, this is exciting. Shall have to start looking into replace the old Fresnels kicking around the theatre with these, allows for stocking a smaller assortment of bulbs and less disruption when changing bulbs. Very nice indeed!

Wow, this reminds me of the distribution panel in a theatre I volunteer at that was built in 1927. The majority of the power was rerouted to other places with only a few circuits being used in it to roue power to the dressing rooms. Unfortunately, we had a water pipe burst a few days ago which...

I'm currently using Mixere for some of our shows otherwise since I use PCStage most of the time i just run the audio cues out of that. It all depends on if the director wants to run the light cues off PCStage or if they run it off our old Leprecon LP-624. Either works really well in a pinch.

Not sure if I can be much help in this area but I have to say. If I ever had a college-trained LD walk into my theatre. I'm not sure if they would know what to do with themselves. It was a shock going from my college (MATC, Madison WI.) which had this huge stage, tons of lighting (3 electricals...

I found this place quite on accident while googling some stuff regarding ticket sales. Thought it would be a great place to join up.I'm Milton, I'm currently the president of a community theatre group in Kenosha WI. that has been around for 36 years. Been in our current building for about the...