Recent content by MrDoItAll

Thank you everyone for your great input. And keep it coming. I am printing all this out to pass on to the superintendent/ school board who wants to see it done right. The more it doesn't come from me, the better. I will probably be in contact with some of you as the process develops, so...

Thanks both of you. I've been digging around for a few weeks here (and decided to join just recently). Maybe I haven't yet mastered the search functions, because I hadn't run across much in this vein. After digging more (and looking at Gafftaper's posts), I found some. I'll keep on digging...

So my dream has come true, and we are building a new theater. We are in the planning stages right now, and my superintendent wants a list of recommendations. I have been working out of the loop for a long time...an auditeria <sigh>, so I don't even know where to begin. It appears that we...

Hopefully, that is terminology that you will never need to know! :lol: And hopefully one that will be history in the not so distant future for me...

I have been told that there is, in fact, a difference. A cafetorium has the house (I still insist on calling it a house) all on one level with a stage on one end like the short end of the rectangle. An auditeria has a tiered house, or levels that sink as you get closer to the stage and the...

Hello. I have been the "Do it all" man for a high school theater program in southwestern Ohio for the last 9 years. Though my initial training is more on the directing and acting side, and less on the design/ technical side, I have found that in the world of high school theater, it is...