| Wow, I thought, I am
doing a children’s show, the lighting will be fairly simple, so I thought. The first
problem with ONSTAGE is that the ceilings are about 10 feet above the stage. This rules
out the idea of any areas, while not lighting the rest of the stage. Well, that
wasn’t going to happen, there needed to be 6 individual areas, plus a lot of
specials. I finally got a design I was fairly happy with. The problem is there were many
dark areas, since for some of the scenes the full stage was used, it looks fairly bad with
the full stage but with individual areas it looked fine so the director was fairly happy.
Also, In the back of the script it says “Lighting is not necessary, though it
obviously adds theatricality” After I read that in the script I thought, hey, the
lighting will be real easy, how wrong I was. The show runs a little over an hour, yet I
still managed for 121 light cues, I would say lighting was necessary for this show. Now I
need to discuss the light board ONSTAGE has, its not a horrible one, in fact it’s the
best lightronics one, it’s a fairly nice board with quite a few programmable subs
(thankfully), though programming cues is difficult, so I had my operator run the show
completely off subs, well so I thought it was going to be completely off subs, he had to
run individual channels also, I am not sure what he had to do to bring up 2 channels and 3
subs at the same time, but he managed, and I am thankful for that.
Sorry about the photo quality, there is only so much I can do with a digital camera, as a
lot of you know, theatre lights appeal to the eye, not to the camera.
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