Practice makes perfect...

When I first came into the theatre this week I knew it was going to be an interesting week. I came in early to open up the theatre and do the normal turn things on/set up kind of thing in prep for this Saturday's performer who is performing an adult magic show. What makes it interesting is since I was there in place of our producer to help out the performer, I was also going to be levitated.

There were definitely some kinks that needed to be worked out, not with the actual levitation bit, but with climbing onto the bed, from which I am levitated from. The original step stool was slippery and I fell from there, and then I fell when the bed was not locked into place. I have a nice bruise from it, but it was well worth it, because I got to help put the trick together and I learned a lot of the the secrets.

I have been working very actively with this talent, stepping in for the producer. I also got the cues today while Heatherlynn programmed the board. We also did a tech through for general feedback and to work glitches, then we did it with all the cues integrated. The show is somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour long, so it was not too bad to run time-wise. 

A lot of time has been spent helping out the talent to keep the tricks secret and running them over and over again until they are just right.