Recent content by Erwin

Does anyone know a place, other than the Stratford Festival, that rents out high quality period costumes?

We are about to produce Wizard of Oz. Our Director wants a life Toto. I have never had to work with a live animal on stage before. Any advice? I'm not to sure how/where to house the dog, or how it will react to an audience. I've seen many photos that have toto in a basket that Dorothy carries...

Hi All; I find myself in a new job at a new company, and I am trying to sort out my place in it all. I know that the answers to my question will depend on the size of the company, the individuals involved, the types of productions etc. but, what are your thoughts on the differences between...

I, and I think the law in most cases, would agree that the designer owns the design. I guess, the grey areas crop up when you need to define what the design is, and how many elements of it need to be present for it to be the same design. 1 track out of 50 is not a sound design, but is 10? 20...

Before I get into it, I know there are grey areas, things I would need professional advice about, and regional laws to consider.... I have seen a number of cases, personally and through friends, where disagreements with designers have caused them to nearly walk off the job. I have been...

I have had the pleasure to work with fully automated stages. It is a real treat! When it comes to the relatively low budget world of live theatre, however, these systems are beyond most peoples reach. Even if we could find the money to install a system like this at our theatre, we would likely...

Jason Alexander :) We will be using a variation on the lycra thing. Marley's face will appear in the door knocker that way. I can't wait to see that. That will be cool! We are also going to have Marley appear in the bedroom from the bed. We will make the mattress as a box and when scrooge gets...

all suggestions are welcome, but we are looking for something a little creepier. The perfect effect will be one that we watch, not one that we hide. Our director wants to see the ghost enter, so more of an illusion than diversion.We will be using a trap door, but our theatre has a balcony, so...

I too am working on a production of Christmas Carol (tis the season) and we are looking for cool/creepy ways for the ghosts to appear onstage. There is already a thread talking about these ghosts http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/special-f-x/14916-ghost-effect.html But what I am looking...

I have come across some information about large scale printed backdrops. If I understand what I read, it seemed like large canvas backdrops were put through a very large ink printer and presto, a printed backdrop. Does anyone here have any experience or feedback on such products. The size...

So Auto Pilot is IR? I guess I assumed it was RF. That means it needs line of sight right? I read a bit of the literature from the wybron site, and it showed a layout of the sensors all around the stage. How can one belt pack be in line of sight of all those sensors? does that cause a lot of...

If you go the wiggle wood route, I had some trouble ordering it when I wanted some. Our local building supply store was able to get it for us, but finding a common language was hard. I tried asking for wiggle wood, wiggle board, snake ply... what they knew it as was bending luan. You may need to...

I have also been considering using an AutoPilot for an upcoming show (Peter Pan). What fixtures would you folks recommend using AutoPilot with, and do you think it could track flying performers well enough? Thanks!

Well, At the risk of stating the obvious, that means that your rotater is getting power regardless of what your control desk is doing. So, is it plugged into a dimmer? Is your dimmer overridden by the control card in the rack? If it is in a dimmer, just turning off the lighting board...

i frequent a few forums and this is probalby the one I post on the least. But the Search chastising is my pet peeve on all the forums. If nobody posted about topics that there was already a thread about, every forum would now just be an encyclopedia. The "search is your friend" post that so many...