Whereas Sunday's run was satisfying, our first with lights start to finish, panicky costume changes and set pieces in the wrong wings, tonight's was much less so. We went cue-to-cue through the end of the show, and some bits in Act 1, then we ran most of Act 2 (almost up to the pause for Act 3). There's much more happening with sound now: I'm going to be doing Harry Woods's light little voice over a marching band playing "Simple Gifts," of all things. The actors were grumping, but all in all it was a productive, long evening. I imagine that Eileen, Rich, Brian, and the crew are just getting out of the building now.

posted: 11:55:56 PM  

Tech writer David Pogue profiles Joe Clark, technical director of the Metropolitan Opera. Clark is one of the enlightened few that keep their e-mail inboxes cleared, we learn. But even more fun is the description of the low-tech thunder machine that Clark devised from a dozen baseballs and a plywood drum.

posted: 8:21:44 AM