Panic! At The Studio - Tumblr Posts

It's Liiiiiivvve Theatre!

So I'm doing an understudy track for Glass Menagerie, everything's good, preshow went fine, up in the booth behind the board operator, half paying attention since it's just a "Go" show.

When suddenly...

"Console has lost control of the system..."

Thankfully we run a parallel backup.

Except.

It's not advancing the cues?

And now it's "searching for master console..."

And the lights still aren't changing.

And I know it's terrible. But there's a part of me that's like. "For once... This happened to someone else..." Because I've been dealing with system glitches like this in here for years.

So we announce to the audience. Please stand by. Technical difficulties. We will resume shortly.

Turn on the works. Except we can't access the Paradigm system. So we pop on the emergency lights. And reset the boards. They look good! Except still not controlling the lights.

So we reset the dimmers!

Which does nothing.

So we reset the network!

Which does nothing.

So now we're waiting for intermission.

Thankfully the dimmers locked on in the last cue, and it's a bright stage look, so THE SHOW GOES ON.

Liiivvvveeee theaaatrreeee.