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Oklahoma!: Opening Night - Backstage

By Tim Georgi on January 21, 2011 11:57 AM | 0 Comments
It's been a long week.  Last night was the opening night for the UVU production of "Oklahoma!".  I'm the Assistant Sound Engineer for the show.  It's cool being behind the audio board again after not having REALLY done anything since my days at the television studio.  Now after a week of tech and lighting rehearsals, things finally came together last night.  Not perfect, but it came off rather well.  I will admit that I'm uber tired with all the late nights, but it's good.  I like things like live theatre.  It's like working conventions.  Or live television.  There's something electric about live events, even if it wears me out.  Keeping up with class assignments are proving to be a bit difficult, but it's only until the 29th, so I think I can survive.  I have very little time left right now with classes, work and then the production duties... 7am to 11pm... 

The show itself is really good.  At least what I can hear of it.  I have little time to actually WATCH the play because I'm behind the audio board, spending most of the show watching the script and making sure the music comes off ok. (la-ho-ma... heh.  :P )  I do have a few times where I can see things, mostly when we have long numbers before the intermission.

And I totally blame Rodgers and Hammerstein for all those songs getting stuck in everyone's heads.

Tonight, I have to drop the "Assistant" from my title since our Sound Engineer is out of town.  It should be an interesting night to say the least.  I hope things work well... Especially since tonight is probably the night people will come to do write-ups on the show.  We've had it all pretty much figured out, but it is live, so anything can happen.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed though.  :)
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Intro - Backstage

By Tim Georgi on January 14, 2011 10:51 AM | 0 Comments
To tell the truth, life has been pretty rough as of late.  I'm kind of used to it by now, but it's still rough.  For those that don't know me, I'm a graphic designer by trade.  I've been working in the design field in some capacity for the last 20 years.  It's been a lot of fun, but things haven't been going too well in the design arena for me lately.  I went back to school in 2007 and in 2009 finished my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art & Visual Communications, specializing in Graphic Design, hoping that this would help in the job search.  It's been a rough road.  I've looked in Utah.  I moved back to Chicago for a while and looked there.  And most recently, I was in Los Angeles looking there.  Suffice it to say, I've been looking for a full time job for the last 5 years and nothing has really happened.  My freelance work has been sparse, not enough to keep alive, so I'm back in school.

I started back looking at Business Management.  After a semester, I determined that wasn't going to work for me.  Then I tried what I originally started in when I first started college, Computer Science.  That didn't end up working out either.

So here I am.  I'm starting my way through the Theatre Arts program, with a specialty in Technical and Design.  This at least is a place where I can use my design skills for something useful.  And I really enjoy working on live events.  When people think "Theater Major," I think the natural thought is "Oh, you're going to be an actor!" as the person sneers and laughs to themselves.  Fortunately for the world, I don't think I can cut it as an actor.  Too much memorizing and I'm not very good at that.  (Voice acting maybe, but even then, I don't think I'm anything special when it comes to stuff like that.)  I think I ultimately want to be a stage manager of something like that.  I'm better behind the scenes anyhow. 

So, here I go.  Two years more.  Who knows where this will lead.  Hopefully into the Mouse.  Hear that Disney folk?  I'm coming for you.