[SML] Lion King reboot

Erin Joy Swank erinjoyswank at gmail.com
Fri Sep 1 18:09:02 UTC 2017


June wrote, "Feel free to post if you hear anything - often I find out
stuff about my own show from advertising or social media long before it
comes to me in official channels."

Ah, seems like I'm always being a detective regarding any current project.
Communication is a wonderful thing.

Erin

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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:15 PM, June Abernathy via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> They are planning to cut a couple of trucks. OTOH, Man Plans, God Laughs,
> as they say. They have cut some conventional stuff, but added a lot of
> other stuff to replace it, so while Don Holder and all the other people
> above my pay grade have a really good idea of what they want and a plan to
> get there, sometimes reality gets in the way.
>
> We're still putting the package together in the shops right now, and by
> the time we're ready to load everything out of their respective shops in a
> few weeks, we'll have a better idea of how attainable the goal is. And
> Production work in Schenectady and the subsequent load out from there will
> give us a still better idea. But the number of trucks and many similar
> factors will probably be a little negotiable for at least the first few
> stops, as the show package and the advance package get shaken out and
> codified in the real world.
>
> I'll try to keep you posted. Feel free to post if you hear anything -
> often I find out stuff about my own show from advertising or social media
> long before it comes to me in official channels.
>
> June Abernathy
> IATSE #321 (Tampa, FL)
> FOH Electrician
> The Lion King National Tour
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 30, 2017, at 3:00 PM, stagecraft-request at theatrical.net wrote:
> >
> > Subject: [SML] Lion King reboot
> > Message-ID: <4750CC86-D015-4959-A36C-89C95353D06B at cornell.edu>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> >
> > FYI
> >
> > Back in July,   June Abernathy  mentioned the new configuration for Lion
> King tour.   I asked about # of trucks.  She mentioned some electric
> moderization. ( dimmers, MR 16s etc)   I got this today :
> >
> > --------------------
> >
> > Yeah, Don Holder was quoting it as 18 the other day.  (18  TRUCKS)
> >
> > Original had 5 rows of ministrips US for the cyc, and a bunch for each
> > leg. This reduction cuts all of the incandescent CYC lights and
> > replaces them with one set of ColorForce. Also means they get to ditch
> > all the dimmers for the incandescent and perhaps some assorted truss.
> I think that saved them 1-2
> > trucks.
> > ??????
> >
> >
> > So there is some of the ?new?  configuraton.
> >
> >
> > DickA
>
>
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