The Next Step

Glad to be back in the Caribbean.  It's so much more familiar.

This upcoming cruise will be the beginning of production cast install.  The current cast had their final shows last night (and I worked backstage for those shows because we are short 2 production staff this week).  It seems the second half of my contract is destined to be totally busy from beginning to end.

In other news, I have now been signed off on by one of our PMs, Darwin, for my lighting interview.  The next step is to approach the cruise director and get his signatures as well, then I will qualify for an interview.  Unfortunately this CD has only been on the ship since the end of the crossing and therefore I haven't been able to demonstrate my lighting abilities to him as yet.  Hopefully I will have an opportunity soon.

 We did have 2 major lighting maintenance sessions over the past 2 days.  We took down all of the Martin MAC 600s and Coloram II scrollers for a thorough deep cleaning.  This is in preparation for the upcoming cast install.  All technicians and stage staff participated in this and we got a lot of work done.  There were several repairs to be done as well since it looks like the prior theatre light technician had not done a lot of preventative maintenance other than changing lamps.