calavphin

Ok, so we opened Aladdin Jr. tonight. All in all, a very well done performance, full house, standing ovation, no dropped lines, yadda yadda yadda....

But there was one technical issue that deserves mention...

Roll the clock back to about 3pm today, I'm in my control booth, working on mics while one of my more eclectic musical mixes plays on my booth PC off of my flash drive.

We're rolling up onto showtime so I go ahead and setup my soundboard program for all my show effects.

Unbeknownst to me, the program decides to take the bold step of preloading some of those wacky new mp3's on my bright shiny flash drive.

Fast forward a couple of hours.

The show has been going beautifully, a couple of minor issues but nothing major. Our resident villain has just made his fateful wish and is being sucked into his tiny new home.

To highlight the final moment of this tempest of light, sound, and fog I had created a quite impressive "whoosh/crash/boom" effect.

The cue is called, and I hit play...

But I don't get "whoosh/crash/boom"...

I get music...

and what music do you ask?

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wait for it...






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...My audience get an earful of those all too familiar opening drumbeats of "Looking For Group"'s, Richard the Warlock's cover of Rick Astley's classic, "Never Gonna Give you Up"

That's right folks, I Rick-Rolled a live theatre event.

*facepalm*

I'm REALLLLLLY not living this one down anytime soon....