And thankfully sometimes i have been assigned as a programmer and lighting designer for a few events. As most of you know my true love is running a console or designing a show, so it has been fun doing random different shows.
As usual, I got a phone call to go in the following week to program a show. You really don't get much detail for the job you are going to do. All i knew was that there were 20 moving light and a Whole Hog Lighting console (which i used the 4 years i was out with Sesame Street). So i was pretty excited about it.
Upon getting there, it turned out to be a live band, dinner, and dance floor for some guy's 60th bday. I mean really!!! Who rents 20,000 in lighting and about 50,000 overall just for a birthday. I guess i wouldn't know. It was tons of fun and it went all night and to me that means... overtime.
So here is the birthday cake for the party. Pretty much sums up the moto of the party...
My favorite part over the course of the 7 hour party, was when the cake was brought out. My lighting world was set up right next to the kitchen so i saw all the prep work that went into the 1000 or so plates that left the kitchen. And when it came time for the cake to roll out, you could feel the nervousness in the air. So about 6 people were around the cake when it was rolled out into the middle of the room. As you can see from the picture, all the money and brown part of the box for the money was cake. They started to sing, and the second the singing was done a man walked over to the cake... And flipped off the entire top of the cake. AKA the lid of the money. Well you can only imagine, when this dude flips off the top of it smashed all over the dance floor. And at that moment you could just here all the waiters hearts stop.. ANd they jumped to the floor to try and save any of it. I was cracking up. And oh course the top of the cake was ruined. 
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