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Stagecraft Digest, Issue #232

 1. Re: Wireless Mic slip ups
    by FREDERICK W FISHER <fwfisher [at] facstaff.wisc.edu>
 2. Aluminized Mylar
    by "Wayne Rasmussen" <rasmuw [at] blair.edu>
 3. wireless mic slip up's
    by b Ricie <b_ricie [at] yahoo.com>
 4. Re: Aluminized Mylar
    by FrankWood95 [at] aol.com
 5. Re: Aluminized Mylar
    by "Don Taco" <taco [at] peak.org>
 6. Re: Aluminized Mylar
    by Kevin Lee Allen <klad [at] klad.com>
 7. re wireless mic slip ups
    by Marty_Petlock [at] sarasotagov.com
 8. Swords needed
    by "Clark Montoya" <montoyac [at] comcast.net>
 9. Re: Swords needed
    by "Jonathan S. Deull" <jdeull [at] clarktransfer.com>

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:26:28 -0600
From: FREDERICK W FISHER <fwfisher [at] facstaff.wisc.edu>
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 <beep> 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

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Message-ID: <001b01c4e51a$67729750$0617000a [at] blair.edu>
From: "Wayne Rasmussen" <rasmuw [at] blair.edu>
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


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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:32:07 -0800 (PST)
From: b Ricie <b_ricie [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: wireless mic slip up's
In-Reply-To: <list-9315464 [at] prxy.net>


> 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. 

=====
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b_ricie [at] yahoo.com

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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

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Message-ID: <020701c4e528$f26c8fb0$e28aaa43 [at] DonTaco>
From: "Don Taco" <taco [at] peak.org>
References: <list-9406015 [at] prxy.net>
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 



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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:53:35 -0500
From: Kevin Lee Allen <klad [at] klad.com>
Subject: Re: Aluminized Mylar
In-reply-to: <list-9406015 [at] prxy.net>
Message-id: <BD796BF1-511D-11D9-887B-003065D2C502 [at] klad.com>
References: <list-9406015 [at] prxy.net>

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:

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> I'm about to embark on the creation of eight 4'x18' panels covered =
with
> aluminized mylar.


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Kevin Lee Allen
Production Designer
http://www.klad.com
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201.280.3841.cell
klad [at] klad.com
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Subject: re wireless mic slip ups
Message-ID: <OFF909B8BB.F20AC0D5-ON85256F6F.000CEC7F-85256F6F.000CFA98 [at] sarasotagov.com>
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.

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From: "Clark Montoya" <montoyac [at] comcast.net>
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



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From: "Jonathan S. Deull" <jdeull [at] clarktransfer.com>
Subject: RE: Swords needed
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:09:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <list-9466850 [at] prxy.net>
Message-ID: <auto-000009475125 [at] prxy.net>

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 

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To: Stagecraft
Subject: Swords needed

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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





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