09/06/2022
BLACKLIGHTS ARE BACK IN THE KLUGH THEATRE
This may not seem like a big thing, but it is to me. The Klugh Theatre has finally got its black lights again. The Chauvet black fluorescent lights were the first lights to go on the ceiling in the original Klugh Theatre. They were there and working until 2015, when the original Klugh Theatre was no more.
The black lights were stored away with the other decorations of the original Klugh Theatre until they were pulled out of storage to be used at NPAC (Northland Performing Arts Center) for the 2016 and 2019 performances of the musical “Magick & Poison: Drawing Down The Moon”. However, the black lights were left in place at the theatre, and NPAC and Vaudvillities took advantage of them. They used the blacklights so much that they literally burned the black light fixtures out. Not just the black fluorescent tube lightbulbs themselves, but the light fixtures as well. There was proof of this because NPAC had stocked up on black fluorescent tube lightbulbs in their storage, when they had no black fluorescent light fixtures of their own.
In 2019, as the new Klugh Theatre was being built, I installed the black fluorescent lights to the ceiling of it and noticed the damage that had occurred to them. Only one of the black fluorescent lights still worked. It remained that way until today when I finally purchased LED black lights to replace the old black fluorescent lights.
The black lights in the Klugh Theatre always gave the theatre a “charged” kind of visual ambience. It seemed to further excite everyone’s moods. So, having those black LED lights on the ceiling of the new Klugh Theatre has certainly given a feeling of closure.
The original black fluorescent lights will be officially “retired” this evening.