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Event Report: Alisa and Morgan report from the USS Midway

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Producer Morgan Connacher and Alisa Walsh We love historic locations. Always memorable, imbued with ambiance - and many challenges that we are proud to master, as we did recently on the aircraft carrier museum USS Midway in San Diego. We have done HISTORIC before, in the ancient Forum of Pompeii, Italy, on Ellis Island in New York, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and on the USS Hornet in Alameda Bay, Northern California, to name a few. The results are always worth the extra effort - every guest will remember these very special occasions. The location provides the opportunity to create a lifetime memory. The Event: We produced an evening dinner event for nearly 1000 guests during the summer of 2019. Added Challenges: Alisa Walsh: "This particular event was confirmed a very short period of time before it was to take place and to complicate things further, we had to deal with a major national holiday in the middle of production. The USS Midway was therefore in full season and ...

What Happens When Things Go Wrong? We Deliver In Any Case!

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The best planned productions can hit a hitch. Haven't we all had that sinking feeling, knots in the stomach, when bad news breaks just hours before showtime? We always have Plan B and we are proud to say: we deliver. Last Monday we released DJ AmRo's great Coachella Music Playlist. And we were excited about Solange finally making her own appearance on the Empire Polo Grounds. No sooner had our story gone live that Solange had to cancel her show, due to band members' illness. Do not despair. We have a brand new video for you. And some flashbacks to our - funny in hindsight - event emergencies. It was not just another sunny day in California as we were setting up for Bruin Day. The forecast had mentioned gusty winds. They turned into a full blown Santa Ana windstorm that caused such damages that it made national headlines. Carolyn Vasi and her crew went into rescue mode to get the job done. Production Manager Carolyn Vasi: "We are used to these wind events in Sou...