It was formerly Trac Tech, and it's now known as The Stage. Jay Shanahan and John Gallo of Klimaxxx are partners in the sound stage operation located at 9623 Canoga Avenue, Chatsworth, and Shanahan runs the day-to-day business. [818-407-5401.]
Shanahan: The Stage is busier than Tech right now. It seems to be holding its own again. I'm happy about that. We're making movies for Klimaxxx. John's in Europe right now for the Hot d'Or and in England doing his foreign deals. Things have been going good. We even have business cards and everything, and records that we keep so we can know what the heck is going on. We're going after the mainstream market, too. I have four location directors out there sending people here. We get mainstream stuff here all the time. In fact two weeks ago we just finished a huge mainstream production. The people were here for a week. They were very nice, polite and neat, but there's just so many of them as compared to the adult world where our crews have nine people. They have 49, and the assistant has an assistant. It's quite amazing. And they're crazier than we are. They run around like chickens without heads. We're pursuing the mainstream business, and VCA is shooting here regularly and so is Metro and Vivid. So that's good. We're trying to make money. I want someone to walk in here and go, 'We want to rent your stage for a year.' "
