Two years after we first arrived on campus, our project with Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music has come to a close. The university’s 1,460 seat The Musical Arts Center (MAC) has been compared to New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and now boasts a Flyhouse-updated rigging system.
Stage Rigging
Summer Holiday
Vacation season means Safer Venue season for Flyhouse. We’re on the road, helping local and not so local theaters with inspections and repairs. We provide inspections, training, and maintenance all year-round, but summer offers many theaters a break from heavy-use and operation, particularly education-related spaces. And those breaks mean we can get to work! This […]
It’s Showtime!
The Getz Theater Center at Columbia College Chicago was originally built in 1929 and most recently renovated in 2018. The Flyhouse crew was back in recent weeks at the Center’s Sheldon Patinkin Theatre. While the pipe grid we installed in this black box space isn’t the largest in our portfolio, it brought unique set of challenges. Our crew […]
Learning to Fly
Flyhouse was again proud to support one of our local high school theaters (Carl Sandburg High School, Orland Park, Illinois) this past week, providing our two-axis Ziplift performer flying rental system for their performance of Monty Python’s Spamalot. Our team installed the motorization, trained the operators on the joystick control, and provided a safety and flight […]
Everything’s Under Control
Our crew recently spent time in Little Rock, Arkansas at the historic Robinson Center, home for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. After more than eight decades hosting Broadway touring production, musicals, concerts, and more, the venue needed some updates. Specifically, Flyhouse stepped in to provide a supplementary control system to the venue’s existing rigging system. Flyhouse […]
End of Summer Trifecta
It was a race to the finish as our crews juggled three overlapping university projects—with three tight timelines. Each scope of work was scheduled over the quiet summer months with students home on break. And all three venues needed to be complete before students returned to campus for the fall semester. Northwestern Pick-Staiger To […]
