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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #15 on: Jul 11, 2010, 12:02 am »
The Jello-ed made me hyper-ventilate briefly. Then I strayed to the painful methods I would use to murder the culprits. And then I had to admit a grudging admiration for whoever thought of that. I mean, really. That was ingenious.

I will take a picture of my booth in school as soon as I get back (it's much cleaner since my friend and I brought ourselves off SST (show standard time) by cleaning it obsessivly, removing what was probably five years or more of dust and other crap. I will also provide pictures of my outdoor booth in August, which I am interested to see.

Also, Ruth, your theatre is so pretty! I love the view.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #16 on: Aug 12, 2010, 09:33 pm »
I haven't seen my current booth yet- I'm moving in to the housing on Sunday!!  But I'll post pictures of the most unique booth I've worked in.



A fairly normal booth, you say? LIES.



That on the right, where the chairs are, is the booth. The door on the left is the doorway to an intern room. The interns live above the lobby of the theatre, and it was not an infrequent occurrence for one of the interns to stop on their way to the bathroom and watch part of the show over my shoulder.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #17 on: Aug 12, 2010, 09:35 pm »
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The interns live above the lobby of the theatre

um - HUH???

how does that work! yikes!

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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #18 on: Aug 12, 2010, 09:44 pm »

um - HUH???

how does that work! yikes!

Well... it's hard to explain. But it works, I promise! It's a little tricky getting into the hallway once the show starts because you have to walk through the house, but it actually works out fairly well.  There is a bathroom and 3 2-person rooms (and one single, lovingly referred to as "The Closet") up above the lobby.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #19 on: Aug 12, 2010, 11:39 pm »

um - HUH???

how does that work! yikes!

Well... it's hard to explain. But it works, I promise! It's a little tricky getting into the hallway once the show starts because you have to walk through the house, but it actually works out fairly well.  There is a bathroom and 3 2-person rooms (and one single, lovingly referred to as "The Closet") up above the lobby.

That is crazy!! Are you at POTS?  And I thought the intern housing was bad when I was there 15 years ago... :-)
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #20 on: Aug 13, 2010, 12:27 am »

That is crazy!! Are you at POTS?  And I thought the intern housing was bad when I was there 15 years ago... :-)

Yes and no- I start my internship at POTS on Sunday! That booth is actually at a theatre in Maryland, where I worked last summer.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #21 on: Aug 14, 2010, 03:08 am »
That's Olyney, isn't it?  I never worked there, but I had a friend who was an intern there and she gave me a tour once and mentioned this little arrangement.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #22 on: Aug 15, 2010, 02:09 pm »
That's Olyney, isn't it?  I never worked there, but I had a friend who was an intern there and she gave me a tour once and mentioned this little arrangement.

Yeah, it's the Olney Theatre Center, I worked there last summer.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2011, 11:45 am »


Well, it's been almost a year that I've been in this booth, I figure it's high time I post a picture. 

I am the only one in the booth, running the lights and sound out of QLab (and, for this show, also running body mics. It's exciting.). On the far left is the light board & monitor, then the IR monitor for the stage with my rubber duckie on top, then the sound computer with the QLab file, then the window to the stage, then the sound board. I spend pretty much the entire show with my left hand on the space bar and my right hand on the board.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #24 on: Jun 02, 2011, 09:38 am »
I realize this is an old thread...but its been a while since I've been around here!  I love taking pictures of my booth/calling station set ups and I love looking at other people's!  I think it's such a literal and metaphorical representations of who we are as stage managers and it's also such a uniquely personal thing.  What a fun topic.

Three images below -

1) My most fun "booth" shot.  This was from an event I did a couple months ago called "Skaters Care: A Benefit for Japan" at the Citizen's Business Bank arena in Ontario, CA.  On the ice below are such fine athletes as olympians Jeremy Abbott (men's figure skating) and JR Celski (Short Track Speedskating).

2) & 3):

These are a couple booth shots from "Threepenny Opera," a UCSD production at the Potiker Theatre at the La Jolla Playhouse.  One shows my whole set up - I like to sit close to the window, and high up so I can see everything, so I had the guys move the tables apart and just had a music stand and tall chair.  You can see the infrared monitor and maestro-vision to my right; page mics/god mics/cue light box to my left.  =)  And the view overlooking the script is just...a cool shot!

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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #25 on: Jun 06, 2011, 10:20 am »
"Skaters Care: A Benefit for Japan" at the Citizen's Business Bank arena in Ontario, CA.  On the ice below are such fine athletes as olympians Jeremy Abbott (men's figure skating) and JR Celski (Short Track Speedskating).

I have a nerd spot for figure skating. And I'm jealous of this gig.
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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #26 on: Jun 06, 2011, 01:56 pm »
balletpsm - next time you head to ontario for figure skating, holler, I'll be your asm!

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Re: show us your booth!
« Reply #27 on: Sep 28, 2011, 05:16 pm »
The booth I'm curently working in is about standard.  I won't call it "my" booth yet, as it's only my first gig at this theatre, and I'm only in for two weeks (but more possible gigs in the future!)
Here's the booth:

9-28 006 by tempest_fae, on Flickr

But what's REALLY exciting about my current gig is who I get to look down the ahll and say, "Hey," to, every morning as I unlock the theatre doors.


9-28 007 by tempest_fae, on Flickr

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