A Balancing Act

Went into work on Sunday to help Mr. Mirenda figure out some stuff concerning how to get power to some lighting fixtures on the set pieces.  For the past several weeks, Mr. Mirenda has been working on set pieces and entire walls that will be flown up into the rafters of the theater.  Below is one such wall:

This thing weighs something like 1,300 lbs.  It's pretty massive.  The top half isn't finished yet, but when it is, it'll look amazing.  There are two sconce lights on the walls (one of them is lit on stage left).  We decided that we would run cables behind the wall and up to the baton at the top.  From there, the cables will run along the baton and up to the loading gallery located way up high above stage left.  We will be doing the same thing for a couple of lights that will be flown in for the speakeasy scene.  Here is another piece of set Mr. Mirenda and his guys have been busy tinkering away on.

It is a set of "all too necessary" jail cells for the jailhouse scene.  You can kind of see the elevator set on the very left side of the screen.  So far there are just a lot of half finished sets, but they look stellar so far. I will hopefully be going into rehearsal later this week to see a few numbers and scenes so I can make sure I can be ready to hang and focus lights when all our equipment comes in next week.  I have a lot of work ahead of me!