Technical Facilities - The Gretchen Ross Production Centre

2012

Gord Graham, Construction Supervisor, describes the technical activities at the Gretchen Ross Production Centre, from lighting to set assembly to props.Gord Graham, Construction Supervisor, describes the technical activities at the Gretchen Ross Production Centre, from lighting to set assembly to props. …

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well the technical requirements in the

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search are pretty specific we needed

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about 60,000 square feet that some of

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the area had to be 24 feet tall this

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area that we’re in right now is the

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setup of the carpentry area behind me as

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a set up with a combined carpentry and

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paint area in the shop there so we have

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a specific area for welding and as we

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move sets over we would disassemble the

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racking that we had that we can utilize

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that was at howden road and then bring

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that over and set that up so it was a

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pretty complicated issue of coordinating

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as i said the block walls coming down

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the floor going down and the racking

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going up and then starting to move from

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move scenery I think it was Stover a

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little over 250 trucks that we load it

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out to come over to here this building

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is much superior to the older building

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they want on how there’s there are no

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cracks in the walls you can’t see

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daylight from inside it’s cleaner it’s

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much better lighting after 42 38 40

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years in on houghton world it’s a good

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change so here we are in the electrical

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department Steve O’Connor is our master

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electrician he works on all of the

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electrics for in the individual set plus

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the lighting for the set for the for the

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show’s entirely we tour with everything

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we tour is a package we have the all of

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our lights all of our sets and props

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everything gets packed up before we go

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out into the trucks and it goes away as

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a package here we are in the prop shop

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our property masters John miracle this

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is where a lot of the props most of

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props that we manufacture are made

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during the year we’ll pull out all of

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the props for each individual production

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we’re going to do in John will go over

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each prop and make sure that they’re in

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in good shape we have welders we have

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carpenters we have a great supply of all

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everyone has a special talent and and

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there’s a lot of people artisans out

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there that we can we draw and come into

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to work with them here we are in a

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typical storage bin we have 12 rows like

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this

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about 40 feet long 24 feet tall you can

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see the scenery behind us directly

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behind me is Nutcracker okay we have

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about 80 or 90 productions that are

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stored here we also have in storage area

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the black boxes which all the drops are

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in each show has quite a number of

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backdrops they’re painted they’re folded

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and stored in the black boxes but the

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ballys will go out for breath we usually

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send one person one of the head

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carpenter will go with them to make sure

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that set up their setup properly and

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they come back in fairly good shape all

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of our scenery was built originally to

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tour at which we have toured extensively

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in the very few companies have got this

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kind of stock that we have national

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ballet is quite the only company in

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North America that has its own

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production center like this it’s the

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only one we have we were so many years

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than that old building on Houghton Road

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and everything it worked but it wasn’t

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ours it gives us a great feeling of

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pride to the gretchen Rossi production

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center and to work in it

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you

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