That led to a maker of machinery-mounting systems for farm tractors and eventually to a person in the entertainment-events industry with tremendous knowledge about safely and quickly mounting and unmounting stage equipment for shows and concerts.
They were hauling stage equipment for Paramount Studios, whose cameras are rolling on the comedy "Without a Paddle," starring Seth Green and Matthew Lillard.
As Admiral Allen and Secretary Napolitano have made clear, we've made preparations from day one to stage equipment for a worse-case scenario.
Among them included trucks carrying 45 tonnes of stage equipment for two Cliff Richard concerts in Perth, forcing postponement of both, and stage equipment for a performance of the play An Inspector Calls, which was cancelled as a result of the problems.
Meanwhile, collectors of recherché celebrity litigation may find much to delight them in the tale of one Charles Sarris, who is suing a stage equipment company for injuries sustained during the construction of a giant pink tongue for Miley Cyrus's current Bangerz tour.
That made us all laugh so instead of playing dice, we grabbed a Yahtzee game from The Buntport Theatre where we were staging our equipment for that shoot.
"A New Civil Theatre for Jamestown" "Specifications for Stage Equipment, Tracks, Rigging Electric Equipment, and Stage Switchboard for Albert Taylor Hall" "Recommended Mounting Locations for Proposed Stage Lighting Equipment for Albert Taylor Hall," January 22, 1947" Includes: Rockefeller Center and Denver's Theatre of the Red Rocks.
American has charged that the pilots have been staging sickouts, taxiing slowly to waste fuel and filing frivolous requests for equipment maintenance.
One of the biggest challenges has been the hardware itself, since to date there's no standardization and everyone is racing to develop their own next-stage equipment without even agreeing on fundamentals for either hardware or software.
