Monday, February 20, 2006

New Theatre, Same old Ship

Well my replacement finally showed up. So I have now moved into the main theatre. I have learned the spot cues for the shows, and everything is going great.

I spent the day getting some new par cans ready for the pool deck. Way more work then is should have been but its kind of my own fault. I changed the plugs on the new lights from Edison to 120v twist and then later realized that they needed to be 220v twist. Oh Well, now we just have to find some color and get them hung.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

"As the ship Turns"

Well as someone close pointed out, ship life is like a soap opera. Not that I would know, I never liked the shows, but I knew what she meant. This past week, actually weeks have been crazy. My replacement has gone back and forth as too if he is coming. That issue is finally resolved, he is waiting for the ship to come into port tomorrow, so that is a good sign. We have had 3 tech's quit or get fired for various reasons. So staffing is going to be interesting for a while again.

I have started my handover to the main theatre. I can't wait to start designing shows again.

I have not posted for a while, and I have had so many things that I have wanted to post but just not the time. Now that I have made myself sit down and write for a while I can't think of anything.

Oh for all of you having bad weather, sorry. It was in the 80's today in Miami. And all the sailboats for the Miami Sailboat convention was a nice site.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Lights Aren't Perfect

Port: St. Thomas
Weather: Not too bad.

Well last night I got a couple of Studio Colors in the rink fixed. One blew up a control card, man did it smell bad.

Got off the ship today and had a nice lunch at the Shipwreck. Two of the musicians played pool to see who would be called Ben and who would be called by a nickname, both are named Ben.

Our Production Manager left today, she broke her foot after the superbowl. We all wish her a speedy recovery. No word on a replacement as of yet.

I also found out that my replacement might not be coming back. Anyone want to work in a ice rink and run moving lights??? Just kidding, our office will find someone.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Show is open

Well the new show is finally open. Everything went very smoothly, the audience loved it. Not much else to say.

Today has been a funny day. Although I was up half of the night programming lights for the new ice act, I got a good nights sleep. It was good to be back in my old room, it kind of like coming home. Not much was going on this morning. We are only in Nassau till early afternoon, so no reason to really get off the ship. Now we are in the middle of the superbowl. The place is very busy. Should be an easy night.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

New Show

Well its Quest night again, and once again a very empty house. Quest is an adult gameshow, very funny. But some crowds of passengers just don't come. When we do have a full house it is quite the event.

Anyway back to the new show. The cast have been working very hard blocking and doing costume fittings. Today we had two costume runs, I think they went very well. I like most of the show. Even though we open tomorrow, I like to think of it more as a preview, it still has a lot of work to be done.

Usually the carpenters and lighting designers work all night long, then they do tech's all day. Somehow they manage to fit in shows every night.

The other light tech and myself have been putting in a lot of hours, We finally have most all of the lights working. We have had a few brief moments of everything working.

I will definalty try and find sometime to post tomorrow after the new show opens, if we aren't partying too hard.