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  • Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts acquires Digico Quantum 338’s

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    Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts audio crew, left to right – Kerry Dowling (Audio Assistant/ Monitors), Jon Bullock (Head Audio/ Front of House), Mathew Adams (Monitor Engineer), and myself, David Aretsky (A2) with the DiGiCo Quantum 338 Digital Mixing Console A DiGiCo Double Play for the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts See the…

  • New Show Relay Video System 

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    I’ve been working at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) for thirty-three years. The lobby show relay system for the advertising of upcoming events, backstage (onstage) monitoring, and for the patrons to watch while getting a drink at the bar has remained virtually the same since we first started using it back in…

  • Working Props

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    Most of the time at work, I fill the role of A2 on the audio crew, or I am the projectionist/camera operator. When Broadway-type shows hit the stage, though, my role in the production is almost always that of a property technician—i.e., a props guy. The prop department is responsible for many jobs on a…

  • Hairspray

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    We recently worked on the touring version of the musical Hairspray. My job on the show was working with the prop crew. The props lead for the company, Abbie Garrison (everyone just calls her by her last name) was friendly and easy to work with, which made my days easy. That’s not to say it…

  • Lighting Preps

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      Every day isn’t working on a show. There are days set aside for other tasks, and today is one of those. Today is a prep day, and I will be working on the lighting/electric crew today. Usually I work on the audio crew, but if you spend enough  time in this business you learn…

  • Who I Am and What I Do. 

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    In live entertainment there are traveling companies and venues. If you are a tech and you travel you’re, “with the company, touring” (roadie). If you’re with the venue you’re “local, with the house” (stagehand). Currently, in the latter part of what I’ll call my career I am a local stagehand. I have traveled in the…