Hello from the BMC I just want to let all you theatre people out there know that the BMC is a once and a lifetime opportunity to learn from the best of the best. The people I have met and the things I have learned will indeed help me in furthering my career in the theatre world. Things are always changing in the world and attending the BMC allows you to stay current with everything in the theatre world.

Cheers,

William Digneit

To all you manufacturers that aren’t here, you don’t know what your missing. BLMC was so organized, it was great. I was able to meet great designers now and the next great designers of the future. BLMC / Live Design were wonderful and so helpful. Would love to see this grow bigger and bigger in the future.

Scott Vontobel from TMB

The BLMC has provided us a great forum for talking to students and professionals who may already be aware of our products (several have come up to me and said they already own one of our widgets but had no idea we were represented in the USA) and many who were new to it. The educational component of the series is fantastic from all I’m hearing from them, but for me, the key ingredient is to be able to have some one on one time with people who I’d otherwise have to travel to distant cities to talk to. I’m very impressed with the organization and planning that goes into this event as well. Kudos to the Live Design team.

Jeremy Kumin from Enttec Pty Ltd addresses attendees at yesterday’s manufacturers showcase.

Back again for another great BLMC in NYC. I seem to remember this show being in May, but I could swear it has been March outside this year. As ever, the designers are inspirational, and seeing old friends while making new ones remains a great part of this event. David, Marian, Ellen, and the entire Live Design staff have done a great job of pulling the whole thing together. I think what I like most about this event is what we LEARN from our customers rather than what we show them while we are here. Designers and students say the darndest things—it’s like they actually use our products! And we’re honored every time that they do.

Cheers from NYC!

GEM

I had two experiences yesterday at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes that were really great as an exhibitor. There is a high school student here from Redbank, NJ, and he has unbelievable enthusiasm. He actually rents his own gear for the HS productions from 4Wall. He started asking me about our scrollers and about Morpheus’ scrollers and if we can make similar products. It was then I noticed Ken Billington standing across the room and knew that Ken knew more about Morpheus, so I suggested to the student we go talk to Ken and ask him. Well, I thought he would fall over. We had a great talk with Ken, and that sort of thing would just never happen outside of here. And from a commercial standpoint, we now feel like we have an ally in this student and future great designer.

The second meeting was with a woman from Cal Arts who works with Don Holder and has some of our gear. She mentioned she was having some issues with the CXIs. I told her to send all the stuff back so we can take a look, and we’ll send her back everything with an Infogate system, so we can perform diagnostics more easily. She was thrilled. I didn’t even know she was going to be here, and that sort of meeting just would not have happened over the phone…only here.