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    USITT 2022

    You're down here in Florida as well? Condolences!
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    USITT 2022

    I'll probably go this year, it's probably safer there in Baltimore with the convention precautions than it is working and teaching down here in Florida with unmasked/unvaccinated students, employees & audiences/sigh
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    Astroworld Disaster

    Heck, they needed to do this when the fans rushed the gates and took down the metal detectors.more info on their security and safety plans here, apparently they did not have a contingency for Crowd Surge? https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/us/astroworld-festival-operations-plan/index.html
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    Astroworld Disaster

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/us/astroworld-festival-what-happened/index.htmlSo I'm sure everyone has heard of the Travis Scott concert this past weekend where at least 8 people died due to crowd surge. Other than responding quicker when it happens, how can this type of event be avoided...
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    Which came first - the light plot or the run-through???

    of course, sometimes you can't get a run-through until fairly late in the process...even a partial.
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    Base Rate

    Absolutely. I used to do the same thing, if it was 40 hours (when has it EVER been 40 hours) it came to about $14 an hour. Now (Arts college, teach lighting Y& sound, and I'm the go-to person for the facility) I make a whopping $24 with a MFA...again, assuming I'm only working 40 hours...
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    Base Rate

    The survey doesn't go low enough for Florida.../sigh
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    Need Soundboard Advice?

    So I've been talking to the nice people who are installing my new system...here's the backorder status of the various consoles... Yamaha - End of October Soundcraft - End of June Behringer/Midas - End of June/July Allan & Heath - End of AugustKeeping all of that in mind, and taking into...
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    Need Soundboard Advice?

    Thank you guys for all of your answers and advice! Honestly, right now I'm not sure what's going to happen due to the inavailabliy of ANY damn sound boards. Every last one of the boards on my list (and any boards NOT on my list pretty much) are back-ordered past the end of the fiscal year, so...
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    Need Soundboard Advice?

    I'm down in Florida now (fortunately no longer work at the theater with the collapsed roof!) and I need two Tio1608-D stage breakouts if I want to use the TF5
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    Roof Collapse - Hampton, VA

    So I went by to see how the theater was doing, it looks like it's in the process of being completely demolished.
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    Need Soundboard Advice?

    So I have a dilemma. The college has agreed to upgrade our sound system (badly needed!) but only gave me 40k to do so. (and this is almost a complete rebuild) While I want a Yamaha QL5, it won't fit the budget, so I had thought to get a TF5 for now and upgrade in two years or so to the QL &...
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    Roof Collapse - Hampton, VA

    FYI, that theater roof had a history of water leaks. Including one memorable day when it was literally raining up in the dimmer room (just to the left of where the bulge is in the pictures) When we went up there, water was seeping between the concrete slabs. It would also occasionally...
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    Ben Nye Stage Blood vs Reel Blood

    When we did Macbeth last year where we brutally murdered 14 characters on stage and used about 20 blood packs a night (and one bucket-o-blood for Banquo). We used a mixture of children's tempra paint (In red & blue) and glycerine. The blood came out nicely for the entire run(I had to do 6 loads...
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    Venue Rental and holding "snow days"

    As we're part of an educational institution, we do what they do. If they're open, we're open, if they shut down, we're shut down. We've lost rentals, rehearsals and our own performance dates due to snow, hurricane, and noreasters. If there is a day available, we'll let them use it. If we...
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