Blog 3

I recently started working on a show at Disneyland called FANTASMIC again for the first time in almost 1 1/2 years. I was very excited to be back onstage, especially since many new elements have been added to the show sinc ei first left it in May of 2008. Not only have many technical aspects, such as a new dragon and props used in the show, been added which make the audience "ooohhh" and "Aaahhh", but the lighting was completely changed as well. All the lights are now state of the art LEDs and completely overpower what lights were used in the past. I knew that the colors were more vibrant, and that Gobos had been added to cast shadows and new effects on the stage, but I was not expecting how much the new lighting would throw me off during the show. I start off as a snake, I am completelt coved by my Kaa Pod which is basicall a giant inflatable kids play toy, so this first part of the show didnt distract me too much... however, i next become a pirate for a swash buckling Peter Pan segment... when the lihghts came on... WOW!!! the lights were so bright an intense that i could barely remember what to do. I usually was able to look into tyhe audience and find friends who were watching the show... not this time, i could barely see off the edge of the boat! It was amazing the colors that i could see in the lighting towers! after the pass, it took much longer for my eyes to adhust to move to my position for the shows finale!, the same happened to me there as well. when the lights for the finale came up, i was once again amazed at the colors shooting past my head! The colors were so intense that i could hardly stand it... for the very end of tyhe show, a green pyro is shot into the sky, BLINDING both the performers and the audience before the end of the evening. I have now been back on the show for 2 weeks and am still getting aclimated to the shows new LEDs that shine upon us!