Of Fog Machines and Backstage

One of my favorite things about Dinner Theater thus far has been working backstage and behind the scenes. Last year when we did Ruby Red (a Wizard of Oz spoof) I got help with the fog machines and learn all about how to run them and set them up. I got to work with an Alumni from Shalom, Chris Berkey. There were four fog machines we used and had to mess around with different ideas to get them set up just right for the scene they had to be used in. You may think that one person could run the fog machines, but with what we were doing, we needed to people since sometimes there had to be two machines running at the same time that were at opposite ends of the stage from each other. Doing fog was really fun and I really enjoyed working with Chris. One of the other cool things about working backstage is getting to use the radio walkie talkies that you wear and earbud in your ear and the part where you speak clips onto your shirt. We use them so the whole crew can communicate to each other and know what to do. Although it does hurt your ear from where the ear bud in it all day.
I have really enjoyed working backstage and am looking forward to in the future again.

                                Test running the machines (sorry for the bad picture quality)