Just five minutes ago I was dragged skipping into the shop by our master electrician, Steph, and knew immediately what I was going to see.
Here Nick, Steph and Justin show off their creation. It's been a long and complicated process to turn the giant marquees from the national tour (this is the smallest one) into something that doesn't cost thousands of dollars in bulbs, and require more power and counterweights than anybody should really need. A bulk order of Christmas lights arrived in the morning, and even up close they look quite a bit like real marquee lights. They won't be hung until all the marquees are done tomorrow, but for now we have an empty pipe with -- I kid you not -- an upside-down desk lamp and a clip light taped to it to represent the marquees for lighting purposes. It's hysterical. I'll try to get a picture of it.Competing with the marquee builders for my attention is head painter, Matt, who is refurbishing the fabric on the Regency hotel unit.
The third and final project currently underway in the shop involved Scott, Tim and Ross climbing around on top of the "Buffalo" cars.
When I inquired what exactly they were doing, I was told, "attaching mirrors," with the express instructions that it was to be pronounced "murrrs." There's murrrs all over this set, most of which are in need of something between cleaning and replacement. With a lot of the big fixes done, a lot of the little projects in the next two days will involve making all the murrrs look respectable.
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