Ch-ch-ch-changes!
Oh blogworld, how I’ve missed thee. S’cuse me while I kick some unpacked boxes aside -
Ah, much better. Can you see the difference? Totes.
All of us at Balagan have been going through a lot of ch-ch-ch-changes in the past six months – new company members, new positions, and a healthy dose of chaos in our ten-EFFING-show season. Dammit, we’re nuts.
Insanity aside, we thought it would be awesome to provide a behind-the-scenes peek at our shows, our staff, and all that is Balagan.
We got our cherry popped this weekend. Well, our ceiling’s cherry. It was screwed into. With screws. (Yes, I am twelve.) This may sound a little inane at first, let me break it down for you. See, we’re in a noodle house basement with low cement ceilings, and lots of avoiding-imminent-death reasons not to do anything nifty like drill into the ceiling to install a grid so we can hang lights… it’s definitely a challenge.
But Paul (Budraitis, director our our upcoming production of Edmond) and his clever team devised away to hang lights and NOT drill into hidden power lines – they got IKEA. (Hmm.. this is starting to sound frighteningly like an ad for IKEA; if we get a shipment of swedish meatballs sent as thanks, I’m totally shutting this blog down…)
Where was I?
Oh right, we heart IKEA. So the team got some very lightweight track lights that only require relatively shallow holes to be drilled into the ceiling for support. SO, we now have our very first lighting grid – sort of.
It feels good, yeah… it feels goo-ood!
<3, MLiz
