willbb123
Active Member
So we have this co-pro show at our theater, called Alley Cabaret. It takes place entirely on stage. We have platforms set up stage left and the audience sits stage right. I posted pics in the Pics Thread
We can only fit 80 people on stage. The director wants to move the platforms upstage left so people can sit in the balcony. Well the problem is that the stage exit is upstage right. So if the fire curtain were to come in, the 80 audience members would be trapped on stage, with the only way out being that one door. Yes we do have loading doors, but it would take 2-3 mins to open it, not to mention the time it takes one of the production crew to get down there and open it.
So we were talking to the director and he thinks that it will be fine to move the platforms in front of the doors... We explained why we couldn't do this, and he dropped it until after the show. He came up to us after the show, and said that he thought that, if we kept the platforms 2 feet away from the walls the audience would have plenty of room to exit, and that it would be safe enough. Yea I lost interest at this point. I said, It is a fire code issue, we will have to check before we can do any moving.
Ok I had to rant about that...
We can only fit 80 people on stage. The director wants to move the platforms upstage left so people can sit in the balcony. Well the problem is that the stage exit is upstage right. So if the fire curtain were to come in, the 80 audience members would be trapped on stage, with the only way out being that one door. Yes we do have loading doors, but it would take 2-3 mins to open it, not to mention the time it takes one of the production crew to get down there and open it.
So we were talking to the director and he thinks that it will be fine to move the platforms in front of the doors... We explained why we couldn't do this, and he dropped it until after the show. He came up to us after the show, and said that he thought that, if we kept the platforms 2 feet away from the walls the audience would have plenty of room to exit, and that it would be safe enough. Yea I lost interest at this point. I said, It is a fire code issue, we will have to check before we can do any moving.
Ok I had to rant about that...