Recent content by beastprin1

How did you guys make the lid of your mummy? BTW, looking up a Bumble Ball. :)

Funny you should say that... Well this show has been done over the last 40 years by several theatres..their roach cities are all simple, but I'm going to amp it up a bit. I was given a donation of an old plastic fish tank and all the roaches from a previous production and I was given a lot of...

I've actually seen the peach done several ways... When it grows.... I've seen shadow puppetry used (so you see the peach on the tree and the shadow peach progressively grows.... One company got really creative with the projection screen and animated the peach growing (but that would be fairly...

Hey guys, I'm currently working on a production of "Man who Came to Dinner"...I need to CHEAPLY (as cheap as humanly possible), make a Decorative Chinese Vase...I've looked at real ones (too expensive), ones other theatres have (too fake)....Needing ideas, suggestions/tips, how/what of making...

simple and effective and cheap!

Thank you.

Not sure on official numbers, but definitely less than $200

Didn't think of the Gap insulation foam...Nice!

The technical director and I have looked into this option. It does not produce enough smoke visible from 30 feet away. I do greatly appreciate everyone's feedback on this endeavor. I guess its a learning experience for all of us. However, the perk is, if a solution cannot be found, the effect...

do you know what businesses sell them or where it could be sold?

Our technical director suggested the turkey baster idea....Do you think I could use colored chalk or would it not come out looking colored? I'm thinking I may have to use an idea like this....I thought about getting an air canister and installing it into some pvc piping and leaving the trigger...

Fire extinguisher shop??? I'll ask around....Do you think 1 CO2 extinguisher could work 30 times? That's about how many times it will be used (from tech, to dress rehearsals, to performances)?

If you know of any theatre companies that have a carousel horse, try that. A production of Xanadu I saw used a carousel horse on a 3x5 platform on wheels covered in fabric stuffing...They added polyfoam wings to the horse, and some fog.....

I wouldn't say they had to be life-sized...I've seen flying effects for Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz, Aladdin, and others that have used "marionettes" for this effect, or have "kabuki" style performers operating regular size puppets and the backdrop is still the starry night sky, but the set of...

Hey, I see almost all of the responses suggesting a CO2 fire extinguisher, but they're very expensive to buy.....so what do you do?