Monday, June 1, 2020

Snobby Actor Angers The Wrong Sound Crew


This actor and their holier-than-thou attitude quite frankly had it coming. They should've just played nice, but instead, they went and stunk up the environment around them with some toxic nonsense. So, the revenge taken by the sound crew was calculated and brutal. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/GhostOfSorabji • ld + JOIN Actor picks the wrong sound crew to mess with Here's another little tale from my days working in the entertainment business. Very early on in my career, I managed to get a gig working as a showman (a person hired in just to work the show) on stage electrics and follow spots on a major West End musical. Even though I was nominally a sound engineer, the chance to work on a big show in albeit a different capacity was too good to pass up. When you're

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Text - We spent around six weeks working on the production fit-up. Most of the time I was working on rigging lamps, running cables, installing additional dimmer racks yada, yada. Sometimes, I got to help out the sound crew rigging their kit and thus got to know them quite well. Fast forward to a few months after opening night: some of the electrics showmen (myself included) had managed to pick up the occasional extra work assisting the daymen (crew who were permanently hired to the theatre) doin

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Text - Thus I happened to be in the theatre well before the half-hour call and was hanging out with the sound crew at the sound desk. There were two of them-we'll call them Pete and Chris. One would run the FOH board for that night's show, while the other would do other jobs like handing out the radio mics to the cast at the half, collect them at the end, and troubleshoot any problems during the show. They'd also swap duties every day.

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Text - So, we hear the half called and Chris goes off backstage with his box of radio mics to hand them out, while I carry on chatting to Pete. About ten minutes later, we see Chris returning to the FOH desk looking very distressed. Pete asked him what on earth was wrong: it transpired that the male juvenile lead had bollocked out Chris for some utterly trivial problem to the point where he had been reduced to tears. I should point out that this particular actor was not well liked by the crew be

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Text - This did seriously not sit well with Pete at all! By this time, the audience was beginning to fill the auditorium and you could hear the ambient chatter level going up. Pete then grabbed his headphones and parking one earpiece over his right ear, proceeded to punch in the pre-fade listen button for that actor's channel. A grin then crept over his face. He then brought the channel live and very slowly raised the channel fader. He handed Chris the cans, and a huge grin alsO spread across hi

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Text - I listened in-to be confronted by the sound of the actor right in the middle of taking a full- throttle dump-we are talking grunts and groans, and levels of flatulence quite the equal of the trumpets that flattened the walls of Jericho. Bear in mind that this sound is now being leaked out into the auditorium, albeit at a level just barely perceptible to the audience. I glanced around at the punters in the stalls and saw that quite a few people were looking around quizzically. I had to str

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Text - For context, the show relay is a microphone front- of-house and a bunch of speakers all over the backstage and dressing room areas that allow cast and crew to listen in to the progress of a show. Due to a curiosity of its design, what was just barely audible out front was now being hugely magnified backstage. The entire cast and crew, no matter where they were, were being subjected to the sounds of our actor "dropping the kids off at the pool" at practically full volume.

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Text - For the rest of the show, the hapless idiot had to contend with the entire cast and crew giggling uncontrollably whenever he went past-and all the while remained completely oblivious to the reason why, as the one place there were no show relay speakers was in the toilets.

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