Hello fellow nerds!
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The Other Doug Jones 🇨🇦😎🖖replied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe Set and prop construction. Twice I was Construction Lead. I've also been a stage hand. This was with a community theater group that specialized in pantomime.
Oh no they didn't!
Oh yes they did!
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@emarley what discipline? Fly? Carpentry? Sound? Lights?
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CM Harringtonreplied to there is beauty in simplicity last edited by
@kinsale42 nice! I played viola and cello for like 20 odd years!
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CM Harringtonreplied to there is beauty in simplicity last edited by
@kinsale42 ha! Love it!!
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Vayl Larkin (they/them)replied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe Both, actually. Build crew HS/Uni and I ran spots for dance shows at my HS. I was an opera singer for ~10 years, with some straight theater mixed in.
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CM Harringtonreplied to Kierkrampusgaanks regretfully last edited by
@Kierkegaanks sure! It’s ‘behind the camera’/offstage.
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CM Harringtonreplied to The Other Doug Jones 🇨🇦😎🖖 last edited by
@dhj1961 wild!!
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CM Harringtonreplied to Vayl Larkin (they/them) last edited by
@VaylLarkinPoet oh lovely! I miss singing. Fun fact… I was an alto in our chorus for my secondary school underclass years — after my voice changed. One day, I got really sick, and it broke my voice. Now I’m a bass/baritone, but never re-learned how to sing in that register.
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@octothorpe electrician from highschool through college, technical director out of college, took whatever work I could find for a few years, then joined Ringling Brothers as an assistant electrician/protechnician, then Disney on Ice, then Walt Disney World, freelance for a bit, and then equipment rental house tech. Still test and maintain lighting consoles.
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:replied to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: last edited by
@octothorpe thinking about it more my _second_ most successful show, i was lighting crew. so it's really close.
(that show is really memorable because I was able to take a live lighting fuckup and turn it into _part of the show_ and then they did it that way on purpose after that.)
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@psychoatberea woah! That’s a wild ride!
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CM Harringtonreplied to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: last edited by
@moira cool!!
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@octothorpe Lights, and some set construction. Maybe stage manager once? It’s been a minute.
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I love LOVE all your stories. This has made my day!!
Thank you all!
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@octothorpe And only one serious head injury!
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@emarley Lighting is The Way (although I’ve done it all… I think it’s important to do all the jobs, I loved doing lights the best. That said, I hated getting up taaaaallllll shaky ladders to adjust the wing lights in the auditorium.
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@octothorpe Performed in seven musicals and three plays, stage managed a play, and follow spot tech for... three musicals? I put performer in the survey.
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@psychoatberea There was a staircase from heaven (lighting booth and sound booth) and earth (ground floor/audience level) with a low ceiling. There was a small crack in the plaster. Scrawled above it in pencil were the words ‘Alecia McDonald leapt here’.
The legend was during a show, there was a problem and she had to leave the booth. In a hurry, she tried to jump the stairs, but smacked her head, HARD. She didn’t make even a whimper, did the thing, and made it back for her next cue!
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@octothorpe was a performer briefly was unaware of how things were done, got an epic chewing out at a big rehearsal and walked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
