Beware The House On Haunted Hill!

REsearch/Paper Work

As with all of my work for the Brownville Village Theatre, because the season ran as rotating rep the lights positions/gels couldn't be tailored for one production. All of the focusing had to work for each production because there wasn't enough time in between some shows to change a whole lot. Picking a basic warm/cool gel for each of the lights and then worrying about specials and which show was using them was the biggest challenge I had to overcome. 
For Beware the House on Haunted Hill!  I utilized 3 special lights. The first was used as comical lightning flash (utilizing a lightning shaped gobo and yellow gel) which had to be re-circuited every performance because that light shared a circuit with the disco ball focused light in Two Witches, No Waiting. Similarly, the opening light look for Pritchard's monologue used two glass gobos and a blue and green gel to set the audience up for the spoofy nature of the show. These same two lights were also used in Two Witches, No Waiting  for a specific magical look. The focus didn't change, but the green gel changed to a light pink to fit the color theme of the show. 
One of the LED lights changed it's focus to point straight down onto the pit of acid, which was the same focus I used in When Grandma Goes for the rocking chair. Because this light was only used in three of the five productions, the focus could be changed back swiftly when needed. Finally, a small fog machine was placed by the pit of acid to for the comedic moments like Annabelle "melting" near the end of the show.