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A Career in Production Lighting: Event Production ~ Capron

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Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. Capron Lighting and Sound located Needham Massachusetts is an event production company that has been around since the 70's. Its Wearhouse facility was this old dog food factory built in 1800 some such. It had an old country style feel to it; wooden beams, exposed brick, creaky staircases, and an elevator built at the turn of the last-last century.  The basement of this building still had the original meat grinder embedded in the floor, how crazy was that.  Even though the building was sketchy AF, the events that Capron produced were amazing. We were  responsible for handling the vast majority of events happening in or around New England, there were other production companies of course, however, Capron was at the top of every client lists. We handled damn near all of the Political events in the area: Presidential junkets, Congressional visits, Corporate events. We also handled all of the major college and university c...
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A Career in Production Lighting: Cruise Line Industry

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Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. During the Mid 90's I started to get burned out on Club Med, the lifestyle was fan-freakin-tastic, the relationships and friendships I made will last a lifetime, but I wanted to try something different. The Club taught me all I was going to learn as far as Cabaret lighting goes, it was time to move on.  What I couldn't quite let go of was the traveling beach bum lifestyle, that was a hard drug to kick, so I decided to move up a notch and revisit the idea of Cruise Ship Lighting again. When my last Club Med contract was over, I returned to the Cape and landed a series of Jobs, I needed to buy another car, so I started working 3 Jobs to build up funds quickly. I worked UPS overnights, then a Construction gig during the days, while 3 days a week I would work at a Supermarket in my town from 5pm to 9pm decorating cakes... yeah, I did that.  I worked this madness for a few months until a coworker from UPS told me about a produc...
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A Career in Production Lighting: Club Med

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Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. Club Med  was an interesting gig to say the least, it was a beach lover's dream for sunbathing and frequent interactive activities. In the 90's Club Med had 110 villages worldwide, it was staffed by young and attractive people from every corner of the globe, Kids who worshipped the sun by day, and celebrated the night with an insatiable passion. The Club employed professionals from every career path you could imagine: Office staff, to Nurses, Chefs and Bartenders, Tennis Pros to Boutique staff, Child care professionals to Circus performers, and instructors for every known beach activity possible., then there was us, a full blown production crew: sound, lighting, set designers, choreographers and costumiers. I worked at 5 different Clubs total: Sandpiper in Florida,  Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Club Med in St. Lucia, Club Med Ixtapa in Mexico, Club Med Turks and Caicos, and back to Paradise Island for one last dose of I...
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