Back to it

My feet haven't touched the ground since landing in Sydney yesterday after a hectic but fun month in Japan and Korea. Tomorrow I'm off to light the McDonald College Dance Gala at Parramatta's Riverside Theatres, before gearing up to light the main room (Hordern Pavilion) at next week's massive Sleaze Ball. Both shows have great looking lighting rigs going in, and I should say a huge thanks to the respective equipment houses who are supporting the events. The next few weeks are flat out for us, and with Cats finishing it's Korean season soon, we'll be glad to have the three of us back in the same country for a month or so. Stay tuned for a bunch more updates in the next few weeks, I'll post when I get a chance to breathe between shows! Cheers Rich

The McDonald College Season

A very special time has rolled around in the MandyLights Calendar... Its The McDonald College Season. Over the next three weeks The McDonald College showcases its vast array of talent in not 1, not 2, but 3 big concerts!

Today is the Dance Showcase and is followed by a Music Gala next week at the City Recital Hall and another Dance Showcase the week after that.

I'm currently sitting in front of the very first rehearsal at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta and the performers are definitely winding up to what can only be expected to be a very impressive performance. 

Stay tuned to the MandyLights Blog to see all the latest from these concerts including an impressive 40 panels of Colour Web at next weeks Music Gala.

Live from....

Greg brings you another update, this time live from the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney where he is lighting the Dream Ball charity fundraiser event for the Look Good Feel Better Foundation. Should be a bit of fun tonight with Mel and Kochy acting as the hosts. The room has come up a treat with a positive forest of chandeliers. We have about 12 hanging over the main floor- looks very cool. I head back up to Korea in the morning for a few weeks more of Cats. I operate the last Seoul show on Sunday afternoon and then do a transfer to the next city. Great timing on my part to turn up for a load out!! Keeps me busy. Anyway back to rehersals Cheers!

Here and There

Hi All Once again team MANDY is all over the world...well Asia and Australia this week. Im sitting in the Qantas lounge in Hong Kong awaiting a flight to Sydney, Richard is sitting in the National Theatre Seoul Korea operating CATS and Dan is in Sydney doing something lighting wise I hope !!! I have just finished up a stint in Seoul looking after CATS ligting matters and handed the batton to Richard the other day. Instead of just handing Richard the controls to the HOG2, I also gave him a GrandMA to play with. Our project is to transfer the show from HOG to GrandMA. It's a huge project to undertake. I made a great start and Richard will finish it off. I get to head back to Sydney for a week or so and attend a load of meetings and light the Dream Ball next Friday. The next few weeks are filled with more CATS and some corporate events and Richard even gets to have a holiday, which he will well deserve.

Richard hard at work battling it out with a HOG and a GrandMA

Till the next installment from somewhere.....GY

The pace picks up

  I'm back in Seoul for a couple of weeks to finish up Cats' highly successful, sellout season here. We just did our 50th show in the city last night and the show will move on in about three weeks. It's pretty cool to be playing to packed, enthusiastic houses every night.  

  Back in Australia, Sleaze Ball is coming up and I'm designing the Hordern Pavilion for the event. It's a great room to work in, and Bytecraft are once again supplying Mardi Gras with the gear and the guts to make it work. The theme for this year is 'Zirkus' - a twisted, gothic take on a circus theme - which I'm looking forward to making work with the awesome team at MG scenic. Without giving too much away, all I can say is it's going to be a spectacular show from beginning to end, with more than a couple of huge surprises throughout the night.

  In other news, the Christmas party season is fast approaching, with Mandylights already lighting around a dozen of the country's largest corporate Christmas events at locations all over the place... more news on that later. Other upcoming work includes a lot of overseas trips for all the Mandylights team, with shows in the UK, US, Thailand, Greece and China all coming up in the next few months.

  We've also just put into production our new corporate brochure which is a pretty nice piece of artwork that we designed completley in house and that should be printed and delivered to us in the next couple of weeks, so make sure you pick one up.

  Till next time

rich

Change in Seoul but different

Much excitment yesterday here on the CATS set in Seoul Korea when our care package from Australia turned up. Pretty cool and important package too- not just your jar of Vegemite and a can of VB. We recieved a Grand MA console and bits and pieces to plug it into our dimmers and moving lights. Now begins the project of transfering Cats which is currently on a HOG 2 to Grandma. This will prove to be a interesting project for sure as we are planning to do most of it in an " off line " situation and not in the normal way of sitting in the theatre with the lights on. We are planning to transfer the information over just by entering values from the HOG and then do a tidy up. Richard turns up here next week to be part of the fun of the transfer and look after the last few weeks of Cats here in Seoul. We also got a box of spares so we can fix some moving lights now. Ryan is happy too. The photo is backstage at dimmer world- Ryan is busy fixing lights and I am busy setting up the GMA (and taking the photo) Till soon- GY

2007 The year to come.

Found this great photo from last years christmas party season and it made me excited about the rest of the year to come. 2007 has been great so far and the second half of the year is looking like it will be great fun too. There's alot on with corporate christmas parties, more theatre tours and the festival season quickly approaching so stay tuned to Mandy Central for all the latest from some of the biggest events Australia wide.