Saturday, February 9, 2008

Lagooned 2008

The wonderful trunk Puck built for the pirates






Puck built this wonderful trunk to use in the play. We needed someplace to hide a small piece of booty. It is a blingy piece of costume jewelry that I jazzed up with additional rhinestone pieces. Usually when we do a show he likes to have the cast sign the back of a flat for a memory, but this show only has sand dunes so he left the inside bottom of the chest raw wood so the cast and crew could sign it

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Puck only had a 400 dollar budget for this show after they had overextended themselves on the last show and the cost of performance rights and such were paid. He did a remarkable job with what he had. Once the stage was populated with all the actors it really was lovely, plus an outstanding light plot

The peacock chair was one that we rescued from the curb and they sprayed it gold. Nothing like a little gold paint to jazz up wicker

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This is Anna's Room off on the side stage

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This is the main stage and a close up of one of the cool fans Puck made. The vases eventually got finished and were terrific. They were Papier mache

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This shows the fans fully extended... when they were folded back they could not be seen. When Puck first proposed this plan I never thought he could pull it off. He had never seen it and never tried it. But he usually tries to add some new feature into ever show just for the challange

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The dictionary stand is made from a portion of a plaster lamp that we noticed in someones trash. It had such a nice shape. Again a little gold paint really sets things off. It cracked though when the kids tried to move it and Puck was ready to give it up. I thought it could be saved and ran home to get some my plaster bandage material that I had used in the masks for The Birds. We glued it together and them bandaged it with plaster strips. Danged if it didn't do the trick and Puck was relieved not to have had to rebuild the dang thing.

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