RF reminded me recently of the time when I was working at Jupiters and I managed to drop the realllly expensive TV camera just when the curtain was about to go up on the show. This caused a little bit of mayhem, because having the camera was an integral part of the show. It was used in the magic show for the filming of all the close up hand magic that got projected up on screens. And I dropped it. Well not really. I just didn’t put on the bench very well and it fell off. And the transmitter broke off. So we had to quickly run a cable to where the magician was going to do his hand magic so we could still project the pictures. It was a bit messy. The curtain went up late.
You know very few things would warrant the late start of a show. Even when someone had a heart attack in the audience 5 minutes before the show they didn’t postone. Curtain went up on time and the ambulance officers wheeled her out on a stretcher in the dark.
The only other time I remember the curtain going up late was the night of Princess Di’s funeral which was being broadcast at the same time. We had one minutes silence before the show.
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Back when I was doing multi-media / video / photography for a living, we were doing a corporate screening at Sea World in san diego... right next to Shamu the killer whale. It was a mess because we were using 15 computer controled slide projectors and video... all of which had to be focused and the building had all glass walls meaning it was impossible till the sun went down meaning last minute skittering around... and we found out that the lights for the building were in a completely different building with a headset with a wire running between the buildings to communicate with the guy turning off the lights and right before it was supposed to start... you guessed it... someone unplugged the headset and closed the door. Nothing like a little adreniline rush and running to get things started eventually. :)
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