Fix your stuff

Well tonight we are at the Salena Auditorium in Corpus Cristy, Texas. This place would be great if it weren't for the fact they need to replace their dimmers really badly. They are using very old analog, and they haven't done any maintenance on the in years. It took half of my crew over 2 hours to get 18 lights and dimmers working. They had every problem you could think of, I heard they even had a few connector/lamp base fires. Come on people, I know gear gets old, but do some work on it, or get it replaced, if you are having fires with your lights, that should be enough to make the powers that be get you new gear. I couldn't believe the answer I got told when I asked for all of the house lights on. They are on, half the dimmers don't work anymore. Two major sections above the orchestra, and the entire balcony were in the dark. Now we have played a few houses that are converted movie theaters, and they just don't have the lights, but this place, just needs someone that knows how to get the stuff fixed, or get some money raised and or the theatre is going to become very dangerous.