Tag: live production

“Godspell” – Show 3 of 6

This semester at NVCC, we are doing three theatre shows, when we normally only do one. One of these shows, the musical, was initially dreamed up to be more of a revue, overseen by the music department. It has since changed shows and treatments, substantially. But this is exciting for me. We have ended up …

Six shows to design in six weeks!

The rest of this season is going to get very interesting. I have three schools that I will be working with, that, between them, have six shows all opening in a six week window of time! This is a new challenge, but with some planning and workflow choices, I can do it. Some are bigger …

“Having Our Say” at Long Wharf Theatre

As anyone who has worked with me in the past couple of years knows, I am a fanatic about Qlab. That program has really changed what is possible, especially on the shows where I am allowed to run rampant, creatively – I can output, or control, all of the elements I come up with for …

First time mixing at Yale – (“Music Man” #1)

I’m back at Yale this week, mixing an alumni performance of “Music Man” (I will be doing this same show with 8th graders later this Spring…might be a little different…) This is exciting, as I’ve not mixed FoH here before. It was supposed to be a staged reading of the play, with just some mics …

Two Shakespeares for the Price of One

Now that “Psycho Beach Party” is done and I am over my hours, I am back to NVCC, where I will be sound designing two Shakespeare shows that are in rep over the course of a couple of weeks.  I’m excited to see some of my students starting to pick up Qlab over the course …

Psycho Beach Party (UNH)

This is my second semester at UNH, and we are about to open “Psycho Beach Party” – the first of our two shows for the semester (looks like I’m running out of hours this semester to get involved on the second show). One of the proposed design ideas was to have actual sand on stage…anyone …

Orange is the New Black

Greetings from Boston! I will be here for a couple of days working on an event that is a luncheon benefiting a women’s shelter called Rosie’s Place. I’m on Team Video, the governor and first lady will be here, and the keynote speaker will be Piper Kerman, the author of the book “Orange is the …

Being “Indecent” (at Yale!)

A few weeks ago I got a call from Yale, asking me if I could come in and be the A2 for a show they had opening.  Just wrangle the wireless mics, but they didn’t know exactly how many they’d have. Things were still up in the air. Could be 3, could be 18. Well… …

Shakespearean Sitcoms

This summer I’m working on three or four shows. But the one I’d really like to mention quickly is “Merry Wives of Windsor.” I’m teaming up once again with my good friend John Regis, whom I started working with on “Wizard of Oz” last Spring. We did “Fiddler on the Roof” with the 8th graders …