PAUSE

Finally the pause button has been hit on the Asian tour of CATS. I am in Busan, Korea, to operate the final two shows of this tour that wraps today. Little did Richard and I know or envisage back in March 2007 what CATS would end up becoming for us. It has at times consumed us. Some of the facts and figures are: -Over 300 performances -Three countries. Korea (twice), Thailand, China -Seventeen cities -Sixty-four weeks of gigs. Shipping time between counties is extra. On top of just doing CATS shows nightly: -We transferred the show from its original HOG2 platform to GrandMA. For 3 weeks we were doing transfer of a day and then operating a show of a night. -We were contracted to light the NEW Korean version of KATS. Again that meant thinking about 2 things at once !! English CATS and Korean KATS. It also meant that we got to meet David Hersey in New York which was awesome (meeting Mr Pilbrow was very cool too!!). In summary its’ been great and bigger than what I or we imagined. And the fact that there’s more must mean we are doing it right !! Until the PLAY button gets hit in April 2009 that’s it for CATS for a while. Meowwwwwwwww I’m off to have a cat nap…. GY ^The end of the night...happy punters leaving.

Happy Birthday

Mandylights turned two over the weekend and what better way to celebrate than by attending the theatre and then going dancing afterwards. Its not really what we did, but we lit a couple of dance party events, Sleaze Ball and Parklife, and had two productions of CATS playing in Korea. There was also a small wedding in there too. Not a bad effort for a weekends work. All the shows went really well and there are lots of happy punters everywhere. Check out the Sleaze Ball story here on the Mandylights site for more info. For all the Korean readers that we have on this site, I was interviewed yesterday about our production of CATS by a Korean entertainment technical magazine "The Staff". I look forward to seeing it, I cant read Korean. Hope there's a few photos. That's it for now. Time to get going with the bigger, better, faster 3rd year of Mandylights. Not that the first two years were slow by any means. Bring it on. CHEERS GY