Here's the story:
At my high school we are doing My Fair Lady. The director is well experienced, and has done many plays, including Music Man at the Playhouse. But she has very little technical knowledge. There is a wall bolted to the concrete floor that starts extreme US. Three feet behind that is a
track for sliding in and out
canvas flats, since our celing is like 15 feet high and we can't fly. Right behind that she wants a blue
scrim, which is apparently going to be the only thing between the audience and the entire backstage. That being the case, seeing through is not exactly what I had in mind. I am going to try to convince her to put something up behind the
scrim, now that I know that any extra light will make it somewhat transparent. This show is is running real tight, with only 2 dimmers left for specials, and "expensive," at $300.