Day 17: "I'm walking to the funeral, and WATCH ME walk to the funeral"

Get ready for a triple dose of The Idaho Fool, I'll be here all weekend! Hope you're as excited as I am for the change. But not to get ahead of myself or try to predict the future I'll just start with today. I once again returned to my list. I'm sure you're tired of hearing about it but it is an extensive list, and I want to log every detail of my day :) I got a little further today continuing on my quest of completion. During this quest however, I managed to screw up the entire Folio system. I couldn't make any changes and couldn't even take ticket sales. I thought I may be able to fix it so I tried to book tickets, and that just stopped the system all together. Luckily Mr. R.L. came by and got everything working again! (thank you thank you, intern fail!)

While away from the Folio system I was packing props up to take to storage. Mostly clothes, shoes, and some hats. I loaded my car with a good amount of items. Tomorrow I'll load the rest in Mr. John's car. Next week it will all go to storage and I can start my organizing days. I was able to get a few more names edited after my prop loading before moving onto the light board.

Today was my first ever experience with lights. It is very important in the theatre to be well rounded, so I was excited to learn something new! Mr. John showed me a lot of the equipment and briefed me on the kinds of lights source 4, fresnels, and some others. He showed me where we store our "gels" which are the sheets of plastic you place in front of the light to make it shine a color and taught me about gobos. A gobo is a stencil like piece you also put in front of the light to make shapes and pictures appear. I then headed about to the light booth. I was introduced to the light program, and was put in charge of turning on and off the nights as they were set for the show. Over the next couple of hours, we went through most of the lights in the theatre, changing colors, setting positioning, and adding gobos where needed. I really had nothing to do with that besides using the light board to operate the lights. Mr. Joe positioned, changed colors, and set gobos and Mr. John picked colors, positions, and gobos he wanted the lights to appear in.

The lights were all set! And not a minute too soon, we had a quick rehearsal at 4. I wasn't needed for the rehearsal so I jetted home to skype with my sisters! Best part of the day, I'd say. (miss you both) I returned to the theatre a little before six to make sure I had set everything correctly before I left for the start of the show. Of course, I had ;) We again went through the whole show. The show will probably be finished in just under 2 hours. It's so entertaining though, you may not want to leave. Five days until opening, and it's back to the Liberty tomorrow for some tech work. Until Tomorrow....