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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Just finished a show, Marine Parade CC Charity Gala Dinner. Load in: 1am Monday Morning @Raffles City Convention Centre Set-up: 2am - 11am Rehearsals: 11am - 6pm Showtime: 7pm - 10pm Pack Up: 11pm - 3am Bump Out: 4am - 6am I was working non-stop for more than 24hrs, seemed a hell lot slower than that. It was a charity dinner with lots of rich people and poor people. The rich people were the ones sitting at the tables eating, the poor were the orphans and autistic kids who had to perform for them. Some performances were actually not bad and I was quite impressed, but nonetheless, linus would not mention this event if it was all smooth sailing... Some performances were BAD, like there was this dance item with this tight shirted loose limb faggot whom i almost ran up the stage to strangle, he dances like... im beyond words of description. Another was the chinese orchestra. BAD. But at least the technical coordinatoor was nice, in many other ways. So it made things livable. My crew was already screaming and tearing out their hair when dinner started. When we were packing up it was like a bunch of zombies were stealing equipment from the Westin. So now im here, not sleeping, maybe i shld. Linus has spoken by Linucio at 2:51 PM
Monday, November 08, 2004
just finished this show at victoria theatre, its a play done by this chinese christian organisation about the life story of a gangster turned pastor. i think i have fulfilled my speak chinese quota for the next 6months, considering the half the stage crew were from mainland china. my goodness, they can be damn loud! even when during showtime backstage! the stage manager was this useless girl, the kind we see in secondary school: the quiet christian who sits and reads books at a corner who has little or no social life and trys to be firm but she really cannot make it kind. she was on intercom and half the time she was getting cues wrong, she actually cued my sound op 20mins before for 1 cue. cannot make it. my sound op was another one, hes from y1 fsv. my goodness, he was so damn enthu my whole crew started calling him spiderman, after the favourite army term "kancheong spider", assumingly he didnt get the joke and went around telling people that he was called the sound crew spider man. his job is to play the cds for the show because none of us were familiar with it, theres this scene whereby he has to play the track of some caning sound for a prison scene, he pressed the cd player so damn hard my entire table shook. i had to explain to him that the cd player buttons were not pressure sensitive and by pressing harder, it did not necessary mean that the music would be louder. my other sound op almost died working with him, hes a nice guy but cannot make it. he wore this nylon plastic material like jacket that everytime he moved, half the theatre could hear the scratching sound and when he moved his arms to signal the fade down of a track it sounded like some huge bird was flapping its wings next to you. the classic was still when someone called in to say that the directors car was blocking the vip lot and that there were policeman there, he literally went beserk and ran around the theatre screaming " director director! got police got police!" like as if the theatre production was some underground illegal performance and we were all going to get busted. need i mention that he laughs into the intercom, imagine during the show: SM: sound ready on standby Spider: ready ready plays music SM: music slow abit (not kidding on the broken english) Spider: okay, sorry sorry sorry (he kept saying sorry on the intercom) SM: try harder next time hor Spider: hur hur hur hur hur i mean, who the fuck laughs on an intercom! and on one of the days, the SM came up to me and asked the question of the day "are u sound?". oh well, thats theatre production for you, thats why i prefer doing rock n roll shows, becaus they don't rehearse like a million times, i could literally recite the entire show. Linus has spoken in pain by Linucio at 9:49 PM |
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