Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Need a goat for Joseph...Dreamcoat

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DFTDONNA
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Topic: Need a goat for Joseph...Dreamcoat
Posted: 10/01/07 at 6:04pm

I need a goat for a production of Joseph. Need to be able to remove a leg or something for it to bleed. Any help would be appreciated.

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Posted: 10/01/07 at 8:48pm

we made a funny looking one (like a stuffed animal) that was all velcro-ed together (the legs, the head, the tail) on a little pull-wagon.

when the brothers fell on it, the legs, head and tail came off - when the brothers backed away, the body on the wagon was laying on its side with the wheels spinning.

it was pretty funny.

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Posted: 10/02/07 at 5:23pm

Thanks. What did you make the stuffed animal out of. I was thinking of something with paper machet.

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Posted: 10/02/07 at 6:14pm

Ours was a stuffed animal like thing ... though quite large (about 3' high).

I think the prop master just used a pattern from Butterick or something for a stuffed animal, and then just used velcro to put the various parts together, rather than sewing them as instructed.

As I recall it took a LOT of fiber fill to stuff it LOL>

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Posted: 10/06/07 at 12:46pm

Yup Tristan that's what we did too only we didn't use a wagon. Someone off atage just threw it on. But the parts were all attached with velcro

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Posted: 10/18/07 at 10:20pm

It could be made easily as a soft sculpture out of the type of fun fur that looks like wool. I did this with a turkey for Scrooge. Its really pretty easy, you would make a three legged goat, and have the extra leg (would need a stiff support material inside) that could be inserted in to the extra leg-hole. If you had extra material in the leg hole painted red, you could then rig that with velcro to pull out and look authentically like the pulled off leg bled.

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DFTDONNA Walk-On Joined: 1/25/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Topic: Need a goat for Joseph...Dreamcoat Posted: 10/01/07 at 6:04pm
	I need a goat for a production of Joseph. Need to be able to remove a leg or something for it to bleed. Any help would be appreciated.

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tristanrobin Celebrity Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704	Posted: 10/01/07 at 8:48pm
	we made a funny looking one (like a stuffed animal) that was all velcro-ed together (the legs, the head, the tail) on a little pull-wagon. when the brothers fell on it, the legs, head and tail came off - when the brothers backed away, the body on the wagon was laying on its side with the wheels spinning. it was pretty funny.
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DFTDONNA Walk-On Joined: 1/25/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Posted: 10/02/07 at 5:23pm
	Thanks. What did you make the stuffed animal out of. I was thinking of something with paper machet.
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tristanrobin Celebrity Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704	Posted: 10/02/07 at 6:14pm
	Ours was a stuffed animal like thing ... though quite large (about 3' high). I think the prop master just used a pattern from Butterick or something for a stuffed animal, and then just used velcro to put the various parts together, rather than sewing them as instructed. As I recall it took a LOT of fiber fill to stuff it LOL>
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slicksister Celebrity Joined: 3/20/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 105	Posted: 10/06/07 at 12:46pm
	Yup Tristan that's what we did too only we didn't use a wagon. Someone off atage just threw it on. But the parts were all attached with velcro
	The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
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vickifrank Celebrity Joined: 9/21/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 332	Posted: 10/18/07 at 10:20pm
	It could be made easily as a soft sculpture out of the type of fun fur that looks like wool. I did this with a turkey for Scrooge. Its really pretty easy, you would make a three legged goat, and have the extra leg (would need a stiff support material inside) that could be inserted in to the extra leg-hole. If you had extra material in the leg hole painted red, you could then rig that with velcro to pull out and look authentically like the pulled off leg bled.
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