Thought I would put up a post since I havent' heard back from most of you and I had a couple of adresses bounce.
Please Email me ASAP with your interest in my class. I have proposed a starting date in the text below
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The following is a bit of information as to what I have been doing this summer. How about you guys respond in kind!
For those of you who might not know. I got a “Summer Job” as Technical Director the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. I have been resident in Lake Tahoe since July 6th coming home for a visit on the one day a week I usually have off; Monday. I will be in Lake Tahoe until September 6th or 7th
I run the sound for all of the shows. There are 34 performances of the main show. I also ran sound for 2 rehearsals and 6 performances of a children’s version of The Tempest.
The shows this season are Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Macbeth.
Comedy is set in the Wild West and is a really funny romp, something to be seen when the shows come to Nevada County as Sierra Shakespeare Festival. The Scottish Play is set in Scotland and is a good mounting of this often performed work.
Having done Macbeth two years ago @ NUHS and that mounting was often referred to as “Macbeth: The Musical” it has been very interesting to see the property done seriously. To be quite honest, some of the special effects “we” did for the NU mounting was much better than this professional mounting. There are serious differences between what could be done in the two widely different venues… The LTSF version has music that was composed specially for the show… J
Both shows will be worth seeing at SSF.
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Carmen wrote:
I hope all your shows are going well and I'll see you sometime in the next
month or so when class starts
The shows are going fine. To date, I have done 22 0f the 34 shows. The shows move to the Nevada County Fairgrounds, transmogrify to The Sierra Shakespeare Festival and then run for three weeks there. Fortunately I don’t do those shows…
I stay in Tahoe for an additional two weeks after Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival closes doing the Tahoe-Reno Film Festival and the following week a Ballet.
The schedule has been brutal. Something akin to what some of you have done for Dance shows! 10-2:30 during the day and 5-11 in the evening. That expanded to 9-noon and 4:30 – 11pm for two weeks. Now it’s stabilized at 4:30-11pm.
I get one day off a week (Monday) until the Shakespeare festival is done. I drove home last night and today I am dealing with “honey-dos” and prepping for Sierra Shakespeare. Tomorrow I go back the LT and do six shows then back here to do an early load in for the lighting of SSF 8/15. The following week is the last week of LTSF. Sunday Evening/Monday I strike LTSF and drive down and load in SSF. Wednesday night I drive back to LT and load in the film festival Thursday at 8 am…
After the ballet I stay in LT for 3 days loading out and packing up the venue, bedding it down for the winter.
It’s a lot of work many days has a day time commitment as well as a show or evening rehearsal. Those days were 10-13 hours long. I am down to 6-7 hour evening calls. I am away from for 1-2 weeks at a time but the money is good.
I still haven’t heard if I am returning to NUHS but no one has asked for my keys back yet…
If all goes well classes will begin the second or third week of September.
chrisc
D.R. "Chris" Christensen
Black Cat Sound Service
Grass Valley, California
www.blackcatsoundservice.com
