Return of the Rock Hall / 3rd Federal and Playhouse Square

Woohoo! another blog post! there is definitely nothing better that i could be doing with my time right now...

So in our last episode, I was pulling the rock hall gala. We then left for a commercial break. And now I'm back for the return of the rock hall. But its not that simple...

I left on friday afternoon like i usually do, the event was saturday night, I came back on monday and the stuff was back in the shop. Magic? Ha. Lets go through all of the behind the behind the scenes action that took place over the weekend.

Trucks left saturday morning to arrive at the venue. Following that, the 3 vincent production guys told stagehands what to do for the duration of the load in and set up for the event. (its a union venue = must use union stagehands) Thats about the next 10 hours. Then once everything was ready to go, all of the guys sat there during the event, running the show. Taking all of the cues and deciding on looks. After that was done (about 11:00) we move on into load out. Load outs typically take about half the time of a load in so lets say about another 5 hours. That brings us to 4am sunday morning. Then everyone has to come back to the shop and dump all of the equipment off the truck because it has to go out again on monday, ill get to that in a sec. Then by that point its about 5 or 6am and dont even think about sleeping because its now mothers day. Thats what i call a long weekend.

Come monday when i get back into the picture we have to do a massive shift because on tuesday, most of the equipment has to go back out for another event. The 3rd federal benefit at playhouse square. This one is fun because it takes place in three separate venues. There is the cocktail party/reception in the state theatre lobby. Then there is the dinner on the stage in the state theatre. Then there is the actually show, complete with CEO rising through the floor on a stage elevator with confetti cannons, in the ohio theatre. Another huge event, thus it uses much of the same equipment. So everybody frantically checks everything in and prepares to send in back out for this next show.

If that is not enough, the passion pit tour is also coming through this week, so in addition, we have to pull and prep all of the passion pit rigging materials, moving lights, and other assorted stuff.

I have no pictures of the rock hall gala, but here is what passion pit turned out to look like...
and one of our marked cases