Holy Gala Week

This past week has been most likely the busiest and most stressful of the summer. It was the O'Neill Summer Gala, a time where the rich and important come to eat fancy catering, listen to people sing, and hopefully open up their checkbooks in support of The O'Neill. I designed sound for said Gala. In the end, it went very well. Come to think of it, the sound stuff was the least of my worries. The system sounded great and everything went off perfectly. The problem was I also became in charge of the video projector purely because no one else had the foggiest clue how to use it. Getting that thing to work in a tent with limited rigging gear/cable was an interesting experience, but it got done.

The gala itself was kind of fun. Free scotch (my favorite part), an opening speech by Michael Douglas (no, Catherine Zeta did not come along... I was disappointed), Dina Merill, other fancy people... The power went toward the end of the program. However, my team sprung into action and got the whole rig back up in about a minute. I was proud of us. The singers just kept on singing, it was kind of funny.

At the same time, there were 2 plays being teched that my interns and I had to deal with as well, hence the stress. I'm glad it's over and a day off is afoot.