Return-Path: X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Clamd http://raeinternet.com/mpp X-Scanned-By: This message was scanned by MPP Lite Edition (www.messagepartners.com)! X-Real-To: stagecraftlist [at] theatrical.net Received: by prxy.net (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.2.10) with PIPE id 26323585; Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:00:53 -0800 X-ListServer: CommuniGate Pro LIST 4.2.10 List-Unsubscribe: List-ID: Message-ID: From: "Stagecraft" Sender: "Stagecraft" To: "Stagecraft" Precedence: list Subject: Stagecraft Digest #638 Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:00:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on prxy.net X-Spam-Level: X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.4f2 X-prxy-Spam-Filter: Scanned For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see --------------------------------------------------- Stagecraft Digest, Issue #638 1. Re: Vacation in Vegas by "Ann Steltenpohl" 2. Be Happy healthy and safe by b Ricie 3. Re: Be Happy healthy and safe by LITETROL [at] aol.com 4. Re: brighter musicals by Stan Pressner 5. Re: Be Happy healthy and safe by Jim Hyslop 6. Re: Brighter musicals by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com 7. Re: brighter musicals by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com 8. Re: Brighter musicals by CB 9. Re: Brighter musicals by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com *** 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <001201c60e0a$27b19890$6401a8c0 [at] user0cd796abe4> From: "Ann Steltenpohl" References:

Subject: Re: Vacation in Vegas Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:00:19 -0500 We'll also be in Vegas 1/14 & 15 and would like to be included in tour if it pans out. Ann & Jim Steltenpohl annstelten [at] insightbb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shell Dalzell" To: "Stagecraft" Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:34 PM Subject: Vacation in Vegas > For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see > --------------------------------------------------- > > Hey all, > > My wife, daughter and I will be in Las Vegas on Jan 14,15, and 16. > Planning on seeing Avenue Q and Ka. Are there any list members working > on those shows? Love to get a backstage tour. Drop me a note if > possible. > > > Aloha, Shell > sdalzell [at] hawaii.rr.com > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 12/29/2005 > > ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20051231165724.83424.qmail [at] web50604.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:57:24 -0800 (PST) From: b Ricie Subject: Be Happy healthy and safe In-Reply-To: A Happy New Year to all. Please be Happy, Healthy, and safe. As Unka Bill says " We don't want to read about ya." May 2006 be the year ya-all hope for. Brian Rice 508-685-0716 b_ricie [at] yahoo.com "Blessed are the cracked: For it is they who let in the light." __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: LITETROL [at] aol.com Message-ID: <217.10ba5675.30e816ed [at] aol.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:16:29 EST Subject: Re: Be Happy healthy and safe In a message dated 12/31/2005 11:58:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, b_ricie [at] yahoo.com writes: <> Amen! Well said...... steve [at] lite-trol.com 800 548 3876 (LITETRO) 516 681 7288 Fax Lite-Trol Service Co., Inc. 485 West John Street Hicksville NY 11801 ------------------------------ In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: From: Stan Pressner Subject: Re: brighter musicals Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:49:22 -0500 Frank, As one who moved that production, I can assure you it was over 500 units. I am staring at the shop order as I write. Best, Stan Pressner On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Stagecraft wrote: > You've pre-empted my next question, which would have been why? I > have just > looked through Richard Pilbrow's hang list for the 1994 Broadway > production of > "Show Boat". I make it about 200 luminaires, plus follow spots and > lightning > strobes. He is an nternationally acclaimed designer. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <43B6C6B8.5060206 [at] dreampossible.ca> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:58:16 -0500 From: Jim Hyslop Organization: Dreampossible Inc. Subject: Re: Be Happy healthy and safe References: In-Reply-To: b Ricie wrote: > As Unka Bill says " We don't want to read about ya." Unless it's good news. -- Jim Hyslop ------------------------------ From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com Message-ID: <1d9.4bda6f41.30e8332f [at] aol.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:17:03 EST Subject: Re: Brighter musicals In a message dated 31/12/05 01:25:03 GMT Standard Time, jonares [at] hevanet.com writes: > I hear you there.... but a lot of fixtures/hanging positions on these > 'mega' shows are "single purpose" - designed for just one scene or gag. So > think of it this way: for each scene in "The Seagull," there's a (nearly) > full, and different, light hang, just for that scene. A lot of paperwork? > Yep, but it's not too hard to wrap the brain around, knowing that only 30 > fixtures are for this scene. It depends on the stage form, and on the set. Working on a thrust stage, as I usually do, many luminaires have multiple functionality, mostly the fill lighting. I looked out my pictures of the last of the three "Seagull"s I have lit. It makes a good example. There are four scenes; garden, late evening to dusk; garden, bright late morning; dining room, aftrnoon; sitting room, laste with artificial light. That's if you follow the script. The first two exteriors require sunlight keys, each of 5 luminaires, plus another three or so for moonrise. Scene 3 needs keys from wherever the designer has actually or notionally placed the windows. Scene 4 needs cover for the artificial sources, which can simply eat up luminaires, four or more per source. Over and above that, there is the fill and backlight. These are the many-purpose luminaires: on a thrust stage a fill for one seat is a back for another. They all need to come from somewhere other than the key direction, and notionally represent the skylight or the reflected light from the walls of the room. It would be nice to be able to change the colours of these: L203 for daylight, L197, maybe, for night. For the interiors, they should correspond, lightly, to the colours of the set. At 5 fresnels a time, that's another 20. Here is where colour changers would be a help, reducing the count to 7, plus the 7 command channels. Unfortunately, they were not around, so compromise was needed. This adds up to 47, or 40 with the colour changers. Add in backlights for doors, of which there none in the version I have to hand, and it all mounts up. Not, though, to too many. > > Not that many of us on this list ever have a budget to design like that, > but. I'll put a few samples in the gallery, so that you can see what I mean. Frank Wood ------------------------------ From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com Message-ID: <22d.40c110f.30e83451 [at] aol.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:21:53 EST Subject: Re: brighter musicals In a message dated 31/12/05 17:51:06 GMT Standard Time, pressner [at] verizon.net writes: > As one who moved that production, I can assure you it was over 500 > units. > I am staring at the shop order as I write. Maybe so. I can only go on the hang list quoted in the book. Maybe I turned two pages. > > Stan Pressner Frank Wood ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20051231153826.00cfed40 [at] pop.west.cox.net> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:38:26 From: CB Subject: Re: Brighter musicals >where all the electricity? Ehm, Frank, have ya seen Times Square? Watch tonight... Chris "Chris" Babbie Location Sound MON AZ Delete key training and post trimming done by appointment. Rates negotiable, will trade for typing lessons/ADD treatment... ------------------------------ From: FrankWood95 [at] aol.com Message-ID: <53.3520da6b.30e88e1f [at] aol.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:45:03 EST Subject: Re: Brighter musicals In a message dated 31/12/05 22:03:42 GMT Standard Time, psyd [at] cox.net writes: > >where all the electricity? > > Ehm, Frank, have ya seen Times Square? Watch tonight... Never mind Times Square, think of a big film stage. 3,000A of three-wire 220V DC. Mind, I know where we got that from: we made it ourselves. We had two big diesels, with dynamos about 10' diameter. The switchboard allowed for both to feed one stage. Film lighting still uses very high power lanterns. 16KW HMI lamps are not unknown. Even the projectors in small viewing theatres (12 seats) use 900W Xenon arcs, putting 16mm film on a screen 8' x 6'. Frank Wood ------------------------------ End of Stagecraft Digest #638 *****************************