Checked Luggage: The contract usually talks about 2 suitcases, which is simple enough. Sure, the work-related gear is head-electrician-centric, but I’m sure it’s all useful to hear. I’ve broken the following down into three sections – containers, work-related, and life-related. Every time I pack up for a tour I ask myself – “Is it useful”, “does it ‘spark joy’”, and of course “how much weight does it take up in my suitcase?” It’s a different style of touring from sleeper-bus living, and therefore my packing list has adapted accordingly. With this schedule, we stay in hotels every night and travel from city to city either by bus or plane depending on the distance and timing. My “current” tour, My Fair Lady, is a new production, travels in 8 semi-trailers, and is on an itinerary of week-sits, with some stops being 2 or 3 weeks.
During those tours, most of what I traveled with was about making bus-life easy: slippers you could wear into a truck stop, an extra blanket (busses are kept cold on purpose), and an easy one-nighter bag that could carry my shower gear and change of clothing to whatever dressing room I happened to be showering in that day.Īfter building a resume of those smaller tours, I’ve moved up into newer shows and physically larger productions. I started at the bottom with bus’n’truck one-nighters those 3 or 4 semi-trailer productions where the crew lived on a sleeper bus and we’d play 6 cities in a week.
What do I bring with me on tour and why? I’d like to think it can offer a unique glimpse into this particular lifestyle and career.Īs for my particular background, I’ve been touring with Broadway musical productions for well over 10 years now. With that in mind, since I can’t exactly share a “tour diary” of what I did last week, and because I happened to be sorting through all my gear anyways, I thought I’d share with you a bit of my packing list. Well, 4 weeks turned into longer… a LOT longer. These 4 weeks would be a perfect opportunity. I decided to rent a car and bring most of my belongings back with me – I happened tobe a little disorganized at the time and needed a chance to slim down the clutter.
Two days later, we knew we were heading home. In fact, I was up in a Genie ziptie-ing some new cables into a lighting truss when the governor announced the immediate ban on large group gatherings. When we shut down in March, I was in Columbus, OH.
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