Return-Path: X-Processed-By: Virex 7 on prxy.net X-Real-To: stagecraftlist [at] theatrical.net Received: by prxy.net (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.2.6) with PIPE id 9525791; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:00:31 -0800 X-ListServer: CommuniGate Pro LIST 4.2.6 List-Unsubscribe: List-ID: Message-ID: From: "Stagecraft" Sender: "Stagecraft" To: "Stagecraft" Precedence: list Subject: Stagecraft Digest #232 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:00:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on prxy.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.4f2 X-prxy-Spam-Filter: Scanned For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see --------------------------------------------------- Stagecraft Digest, Issue #232 1. Re: Wireless Mic slip ups by FREDERICK W FISHER 2. Aluminized Mylar by "Wayne Rasmussen" 3. wireless mic slip up's by b Ricie 4. Re: Aluminized Mylar by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com 5. Re: Aluminized Mylar by "Don Taco" 6. Re: Aluminized Mylar by Kevin Lee Allen 7. re wireless mic slip ups by Marty_Petlock [at] sarasotagov.com 8. Swords needed by "Clark Montoya" 9. Re: Swords needed by "Jonathan S. Deull" *** Please update the subject line of your reply to use the subject *** line of the message you are replying to! Please only reply to *** one message subject in each reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:26:28 -0600 From: FREDERICK W FISHER Subject: Re: Wireless Mic slip ups Message-id: <681196685c84.685c84681196 [at] wiscmail.wisc.edu> > > > I remember calling a theatre box office once - listened to the > recording, > and right before the the person recording said, "Do you > think anyone > will buy that?" > > -- Jon Ares Many years ago, while staging some piece of junk, when my mother came to pick up her ticket, she asked my wife (who was running the box office) how the play was. My wife said it was pretty boring. A woman behind my mother piped up, "Excuse me, I'm the playwright and I heard that." We hadn't been expecting her and it was an amusing surprise. I've also been told the story of a minister, sitting in his office before a service and not realizing his mic was on, commented when a parishioner entered the room, "My Mrs. Jones, aren't you looking foxy today!" Fred Fisher ------------------------------ Message-ID: <001b01c4e51a$67729750$0617000a [at] blair.edu> From: "Wayne Rasmussen" Subject: Aluminized Mylar Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:58:23 -0500 I'm about to embark on the creation of eight 4'x18' panels covered with aluminized mylar. I've done this before when we put on "A Chorus Line" and while the panels turned out fine after the heat shrinking, it was a pain to try to keep the panels square in the process of the shrinkage. I know that the mylar should be shrunk from the back side (without the aluminum), but I'm wondering if anyone has had any positive experiences shrinking from the aluminized side. It sure would be easier to skin the back side with luaun (which I eventually need to do) before the mylar is applied. Wayne Rasmussen Blair Academy ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20041218173207.78288.qmail [at] web50607.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:32:07 -0800 (PST) From: b Ricie Subject: wireless mic slip up's In-Reply-To: > IMHO, these are things that a professional, or one with a professional > attitude, will forget or, at worst, not repeat. Care and feeding of > actors is very important to the sound engineer/technician's job, and the > trust that you won't use the technology in your hands to invade their > privacy is a very important thing. I agree... to a point. Discretion and anonymity I think are valuable resources. Without information the lesson can be lost. Proper use of information leads to education. ===== Brian Rice b_ricie [at] yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com Message-ID: <1de.30d4a069.2ef5c426 [at] aol.com> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:34:30 EST Subject: Re: Aluminized Mylar In a message dated 18/12/04 15:57:42 GMT Standard Time, rasmuw [at] blair.edu writes: > I know that the mylar should be shrunk from the back side (without the > aluminum), but I'm wondering if anyone has had any positive experiences > shrinking from the aluminized side. It sure would be easier to skin the > back side with luaun (which I eventually need to do) before the mylar is > applied. Fit a temporary diagonal brace to the frame. This is what builders and carpenters do with door frames. Then remove it, and apply the skin. Frank Wood ------------------------------ Message-ID: <020701c4e528$f26c8fb0$e28aaa43 [at] DonTaco> From: "Don Taco" References: Subject: Re: Aluminized Mylar Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:42:29 -0800 > I'm about to embark on the creation of eight 4'x18' panels covered with > aluminized mylar. > Wayne Rasmussen I've wondered if baking them in a huge enough oven would allow the Mylar to stretch evenly to the frame, which could already be skinned, as you suggest. Every day on the way to work, I pass such an 'oven.' It's used by the collision repair place to dry the paint on the cars after the spraying. I may never have the budget to try the experiment, however. Such is life. dt ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:53:35 -0500 From: Kevin Lee Allen Subject: Re: Aluminized Mylar In-reply-to: Message-id: References: where did you get and how much did it cost, if I may? Do you know if the supplier has the two way version? thx On Dec 18, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Wayne Rasmussen wrote: > For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see=20 > > --------------------------------------------------- > > I'm about to embark on the creation of eight 4'x18' panels covered = with > aluminized mylar. ----- Kevin Lee Allen Production Designer http://www.klad.com 973.744.6352.voice 201.280.3841.cell klad [at] klad.com =F0 ------------------------------ Subject: re wireless mic slip ups Message-ID: From: Marty_Petlock [at] sarasotagov.com Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:21:46 -0500 Re: Wireless Mic slip ups About twenty years after I graduated from college I was working as the M.E. in a 1700 seat booking house. A touring 'Broadway' show came through for a split week and I was delighted to discover the female lead was an old girlfriend from college days. Opening night at half hour I brought the curtain warmers up, then went down to the Star dressing room, knocked on her door and told her who it was. Immediately the door flew open and we hugged and remarked on how well the other looked. She invited me in and we began talking about our days at school, eventually getting onto the: 'whatever happened to?' stuff. I asked if she'd heard about another ex-girlfriend who, as it happened, had married an actor very well known in a featured role on a major TV cop show series of that era. I had never liked the guy and we happily began trashing him. She, it seemed, liked him even less than I did for his rotten treatment of the lady in question. She got somewhat virulent with some pretty choice words describing the fellow, calling him names that even I, an ex-sergeant, hadn't used in years. Suddenly, there was a frantic pounding on the door and the chief skweek poked his head in to tell us that her mic was on and everything she'd said about that well known actor had been shared with 1500 people in the auditorium. Marty Petlock Technical Facilities Manager Van Wezel P.A.H. Sarasota, FL. ********** E-mail messages sent or received by City of Sarasota officials and employees in connection with official City business are public records subject to disclosure under the Florida Public Records Act. ********** ------------------------------ From: "Clark Montoya" Subject: Swords needed Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:56:06 -0500 Message-ID: <001301c4e576$4bf203b0$6401a8c0 [at] INTEL810XP> I need a couple of Scimitar Swords for a production of Cosi Fan Tutte. Does anyone know of a good prop house where I can pick up a couple fairly cheaply? Thanks Clark Montoya Tech Director Capital City Opera Atlanta, GA ------------------------------ From: "Jonathan S. Deull" Subject: RE: Swords needed Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:09:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On a similar note, I need a good, dramatic looking, working but safe stiletto for an upcoming production of Threepenny Opera. Any sources? Jonathan Deull Edmund Burke School Washington, DC -----Original Message----- From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft [at] theatrical.net] On Behalf Of Clark Montoya Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 9:56 PM To: Stagecraft Subject: Swords needed For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see --------------------------------------------------- I need a couple of Scimitar Swords for a production of Cosi Fan Tutte. Does anyone know of a good prop house where I can pick up a couple fairly cheaply? Thanks Clark Montoya Tech Director Capital City Opera Atlanta, GA ------------------------------ End of Stagecraft Digest #232 *****************************