Day 2 - One Chair, Two Chair, Three Chair, Four

5 1/2 Hours

Today I arrived at the theater early to get a head start organizing the storage room across from the Booth entrance, and to start compiling pictures of shows produced since 2008 to put on the new website I'm working on.

Storage room located Booth side

First I did some digging around on digital gallery and found some very interesting images and blueprints from when the meeting house was being built. After finding various building images, as well as images from every production since the Laramie Project, i started to go back to the manual labor.
While cleaning the storage room out, and disposing of such reliques as the slide projector and four spare lights for it, I discovered the the bottom of a seat, then proceeded to ask Terry where it belongs. I found out that it had various counterparts hiding in the under seating storage, which is also on my list to clean before this whole process is over. I set it down, with its company, and proceded to move onward with my cleaning of the upstairs storage closets by opening the one on the oposite side of the theater. In there to my surprise I found even more spare boxes of Irwin Seats. I then, in a mistaken fit of compulsive rage, decided to move all the chairs to one central location, that location being the storage room located behind the seats.

The room loaded full of chair parts,
but the door still closes so all is good.

Can't wait till I get to this!

Under seating storage still with 12 boxes of seat parts

Here is the "kicker," like certain things in life this project appears to be one that just doesn't want to succeed. After moving what must have been at least 500 lbs of replacement furniture I came to the sorry realization that, due to no fault of my own, the small storage room in no way could hold all the seats. And so, feeling defeated I move on, and opened the last storage room located behind the seating. This room across from the elevator held some surprises of it's own, for example, the nine 25', $38.95 each, XLR cables still in original air tight packaging. Thats a total of $350.55 that I just found for Proctor, SCORE! 

Mic cables, all nice and straight.

Then I found what I think was the jackpot of the day, two simple cable hangers that I adapted to hold the wireless mics straight, so they don't stress the wire, and so they stay organized. After clearing out this entire storage room I decided that, come Thursday, I would attempt to fit the remainder of the chair parts, from the under seating storage area, into the storage room that once housed the monitor speakers.

The last room, ready to be filled with
seat parts!

And so that was day 2, tomorrow I hope to take a break from the manual labor and work on the website with Michel and Terry, because I'm only doing an abbreviated project and have a race in the afternoon.