Well, time gets away from us but here is Episode 3! It has been a busy week of packing the shop trucks up and traveling up to tech. Then it was like the first day of school and man was it a time. It was great to get back to work and do what we love. We discuss what happens in the first few days of tech from spot call, dumping the trucks, and how a plan is made. We also become a food podcast and talk about some amazing restaurants in town.

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Episode 2 is finally live and what a week it has been for us between shop time, hurricanes, and flooding. This week we discuss our second week in the show, how the invited dress was, surviving a hurricane in NYC, plus our COVID Protocols for the tour. We also answer your sent-in questions on how a touring show decides set and lighting to how lighting, video, and audio divvy up FOH and balcony rail. Please send over some questions you want to be answered and enjoy the long way down to the underground.

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We are back ladies and gentlemen with our new series! In this series, we will take you from the prep of a first national Broadway tour and bring you along for the ride of it. Taking you from prep all the way to opening night! In this episode, we talk about how we prepared for the tour, what clothes we packed, what tools we bring, and how the first week in the shop went. Plus many other things including listener questions from you! Please also send over some questions you want to be answered and enjoy the long way down to the underground.

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The new episode of the Theatrewolf Podcast is up! This week we talk with Trevor Burk and how video is in the broadcasting world. We talk about him doing a show during this time with programmers and teams in different states, let alone different countries. We also go into understanding your process and how it's ok to be where you want to be, there is no top to the pyramid.

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Tom Littrell is originally from Wichita Falls, Texas. In 1970, he graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas – (look it up!). He was drafted, spent three years in the Army, and then went back to graduate school in technical theatre. A friend’s cousin worked for a company in Dallas called Showco. They provided large-scale lighting and sound systems to rock tours. Tom dropped out of grad school to do a tour or two with Showco, then go back and finish his degree. But his second tour was as a lighting technician on Paul McCartney’s Wings over America 1976 tour. That tour…uh...set the hook so he stayed at Showco and toured with Led Zeppelin, the Who, Genesis, Linda Ronstadt, and others. In 1980, he was ready – again - to go back to grad school when Showco engineers began work on what would become the Vari-Lite system. He was asked to help with that project and delayed going back to graduate school one more time, going on the road with Genesis and the first Vari-Lite system in 1981. He programmed the moving lights and operated the console for the first show in Barcelona, Spain, and the rest of the tour. He continued at Vari-Lite for another twenty years – touring with Genesis as well as David Bowie, ZZ Top, Hall and Oates, Don Henley, and many other concert and corporate event clients. Later he did technical product management and marketing.

In 2002, Showco/Vari-Lite was sold and Tom was laid off. He immediately called ETC. Happily, they offered him a job and he and his wife Stacy moved to Madison, Wisconsin in 2004. He was Fixtures Product Manager for ten years and then became an outreach and training specialist. He retired in August 2020 after seventeen years with ETC. He loves Madison – but could do without the winters.

FYI, he still doesn’t have a graduate degree and wonders if he should go back to school.

NAMM Interview with Rusty Brutsche:

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Brian Munroe is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, 28 year IATSE member, and former president of IATSE Local 74, for 9 years. Brian has been a Production or head carpenter on numerous broadway shows, including "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk", "Hairspray", "Rock of Ages", "Hedwig and The Angry Inch", "Anastasia”, several pre-broadway tours, advance carpenter on Jersey Boys 1st National and several of the sit-downs (LA, Toronto, Las Vegas)

Brian is currently the Head Carpenter on "Hadestown" on Broadway, an ETCP Rigger (theatrical), and an IATSE Special Representative for over 10 years.

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Bryan Johnson is an award-winning Props and Special Effects Designer, Artisan and Technician for theatre, opera, film and television. Bryan was awarded the 2010 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Design award for his Special Effects design for the Tulsa Community College production of Elektra. Bryan is also a three-time KCACTF Region 6 award winner.

Bryan went on to become a Lead Props and Special Effects Technician with Blue Man Group-Las Vegas for five years, where he fabricated, maintained and operated the long running show. During his time with Blue Man Group, Bryan designed and created several themed art installations for the company’s involvement with the local community. As a puppeteer for the show, Bryan also worked hands-on with Michael Curry puppetry and robotic show elements from Show Creators. His work has appeared worldwide in publications, including "Stage Directions" and “Lighting & Sound America.”  Bryan’s theatrical body of work includes; Props Design and Artisanship, Magic/Illusion Design, Mask Making, Puppetry, Lighting Design and Special Effects Makeup.

Bryan currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he owns and operates 'Bryan Johnson Creative' and is the Properties Designer and Artisan with the Tulsa Opera. He is a member of the Society of Props Artisan Managers, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, a faculty member with The Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas and remains active with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Bryan’s Instagram: @bryanjohnsoncreative

Youtube Link Mentioned:

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Louis Riquelme is a touring technician hailing from Middlebury, VT.  He is a proud member of IATSE Local 919, a ETCP Certified Theatrical Rigger, and a CM Certified Chain Hoist Technician.  Touring credits include Disneys The Lion King, Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, and others.  He has been an Electrican, a pyro tech, a carpenter, but his true passion is rigging and overhead lifting solutions.  He is most at home at 80’ in the air, with his brothers and sisters, making the entertainment industry a safer place, one point at a time.

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Jane Childs is the Director of Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas and has a varied 45 plus years theatre past including costuming, assisting her late husband Don on his scenic and lighting design projects, performing simultaneous French translation for Ladislav Vychodil, and being the den mother to many years of theatre students. Her managerial and development skills bode well for SILV’s partners and for her work for eight years as VP - Development with the SW Chapter of USITT. Her studies included Indiana University, La Sorbonne, and University of Iowa. Jane prides herself on the meshing of good materials and good practices with good people for the best future for our industry. Don and Jane Childs and SILV were honored with the Kennedy Center Golden Medallion award in January of 2013. Jane shares her husband Don’s true passion for theatre and teaching and his demand for integrity from those you work with - be they students or collaborators - that drove his work on a daily basis. Here’s to tomorrow and all the good work yet to do!

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