Yet ANOTHER wretched hive of scum and villainy.
We have thirteen more days of shows...then we jump on tearing down the summer stuff and putting up the Halloween stuff. It'll be interesting...we're theoretically doing pretty much the same stuff we did last Halloween, for entertainment...we were going to change up our Seance show, but the new bits they wanted to add were...well, 'cost-prohibitive' comes to mind (and this is a show that they spent tens of thousands of dollars on putting together in the first place, so you get some idea of what that might mean...) There will be some stuff that will be easy to take care of...we're basically repeating the light hang from last year's show for our main-stage show, and the music is all the same...but they're going to have to tweak at least a few things, because there was stuff we used last year that CAN'T be used again this year, because the places where we had it mounted no longer exist on the stage (including the solo positions for the two guitarists), and a bunch of the set dressing was designed around features on the stage that are no longer there, so it could be an interesting change-over, depending on just how much stuff has to get relocated. And I honestly have no idea what's going on with our other show...I know it's supposed to be in the same location, and presumably will have the same lights...I hope they let us run all the cables before they put the deck on the stage, because it sucks crawling around under the stage when you're a middle-aged guy who's becoming increasingly inflexible, physically. But I don't know if we're using the same lights, or how many of them will be available if they decide to keep them down at the existing stage...
But, yeah...there's gonna be plenty to be done in the four weeks or so between when our summer shows end and our Halloween shows start...