JR Clancy on Facebook, Show Us Your Scariest Rigging Photos

In JR Clancy’s latest Rigging Report email, they are calling for photos. No, not photos of your beautiful self, but photos of scary rigging. We have all been then.  We have walked into a theatre, looked up and had to do a double take. “Are they really hanging pipes with dog chain?!?”  Yup, I have [...]

Hug a Arbor, It’s Arbor Day!

Today is the last Friday in April, that means it is Arbor Day! It is the day were we stop and hug our arbors, thank them for their hard work.  Just kidding, that would be kinda funny though if it were true. Personally, I love Arbors! They hold all the weight to keep pipes flying [...]

JR Clancy’s Updates iRigging iPhone App

Looks like JR Clancy just updated their iPhone app, iRigging.  The first noticeable difference is the lacking of the Metric version of the App.  When JR Clancy first released their iRigging app, they had two versions, one for Metric conversion and one for imperial conversion.
Well, with the new update to iRigging, JR Clancy combined the [...]

JR Clancy Rigging Report – Powered Fire Curtains

JR Clancy just released their latest Rigging Report and it has to do with some big changes made to Powered Fire Curtains standards. There are two new fire curtain standards in force, and both of them require powered operation for many more curtains than in the past.
NFPA 80 Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening [...]

JR Clancy Introduces iRigging iPhone App

I was blown away this afternoon when I received an email from JR Clancy announceing their latest product, iRigging.  It is an iPhone app for figuring out rigging calculations and information.  Here is more from the press release:
It’s never been easier to get the equipment data you need for proper installation and operation of manual [...]

JR Clancy Introduces Altus, A New Rigging Control

I love the opening line to JR Clancy’s latest Press Release.. What kind of a system do you want controlling the heavy scenery over your students’ heads? Easy, something that won’t fall on them, or me!  But seriously.
JR Clancy is introducing a new, powerful rigging control called Altus at the LDI Show. More from the [...]

JR Clancy Introduces New 56 Series Loft Blocks

Just When you thought that there couldn’t be any new advanced in stage rigging, JR Clancy announces a new 56 Series of Loft Blocks.  JR Clancy has rethought their most dependable, no-failure 55 Series of Loft Blocks and made some improvements to bring the 56 Series to life.
The 56 Series offers some new features:

Quieter operation. [...]

JR Clancy Rigging Report: The Ghost Light

This weeks JR Clancy Rigging Report brings us yet another Superstition that we theatre people take to heart, the Ghost Light. While the Ghost Light has a practical use while the stage is dark, there is a deeper meaning behind it.
Most theatres have a ghost. This fact is known from high schools in Iowa to [...]

JR Clancy Rigging Report: Theatrical Superstitions & Missing Catalogs

This months JR Clancy Rigging Report mentions something that almost every person in theatre knows about, but talks very little about it, Theatrical Superstitions.  Why do we do such things?  Why does a pitcher on a winning streak on wash hit uniform?  It’s all about doing what ever it takes to keep winning or to [...]

JR Clancy Introduces New SureBrake II on PowerLifts

We recived a Press Release from JR Clancy that they have developed a new Braking System for the PoweLift hoist system, SureBrake II.  The SureBrake II increases the safety and reliability by having a faster acting load brake to catch any failure before a batten becomes a runaway.
Read more from The Press Release:
PowerLifts have a [...]

JR Clancy Announces New Batten End Caps

JR Clancy Recently announced the release of a new Batten End cap that allows flexiable numbering of battens.  The new batten end cap allsows rigging ops the ability to quickly and easily number and identify battens from the deck or the grid.
More from the Press Release:

The bright yellow plastic end caps cover the ends of [...]