Commenting mostly to follow this thread
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That's what we have going on at the moment. There's far too many clever people on here for no one to have tried some interesting methods (I hope).Tetris and space are your friends.
The more I think about it, the more it seems that this is the best idea (for our space). Even if the next show needs that 8 foot stair unit, it won't need the 6 foot or the 10 foot - so why keep them all together. Assembling the stair isn't nearly as time consuming as building one or even just rearranging all the ones we have. Also, if all the stock has the same run (designers aside) then we can pull from a single tread stock and just store the stringers... I will continue to think on this...I usually knock the whole staircase down to separate parts (stringer and treads, plus any cross-support needed) because it stores much, much smaller that way.
Commenting mostly to follow this thread, but we currently have about 4-5 stock stairs that we store in our pit. Most of the time we just flip one on top of the other and lock them in like Tetris pieces. I've got two curved units from an "Anything Goes" build that I'm hanging on to that don't store well and can't do that since they turn opposite each other and won't nest. These are all free-standing and only about 3-4' tall.
We do have two longer stringers with treads (about 7' rise in total) that are used either for escape or part of the set every so often. Those get stripped down and nest on top of each other and are currently sitting on top of a bridge from "The Music Man" since they fit inside it and the piece has wheels so we can move it since the steps weigh a ton. That's currently in my office.
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