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« on: Oct 01, 2006, 11:53 pm »
This wasn't a show stop, but it was a Cancel while the audience was seated. I was working on a production of "Ruthless the Musical" at a resort. We were gearing up for a 2pm sunday show, when we were told that the resort was going to shut power down for 20 Mins. starting at 1pm. so after we set up for the show we proceeded shut our systems down to provent any problems after power was to be restored. Well 1 O'clock hit and we still had power, 1:10,1:20....1:47 p.m. they finally shut power down. (mind you we have a 2 o'clock show and a 20 min power outage) We didn't get power back untill almost 3PM!!! we were still going to do the show, the audience (most of them) stayed with us. But, (yes BUT) while I was running around making sure systems where ok and running normal, and my SM, ASM, and PA where dealing with Equity problem about doing the show after a long hold, we lost all control over the entire lighting system. Since we had power back the emergency back up shut off, but we lost all house lights because there was no signal to the rack. We called the show and sent the patrons home with there mony back and a voucher for a free show. The cause of this ended up being a bad back up battery system in the signal distro rack. when power came online it stayed on back up untill the battery died.