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    Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:31pm
How much stage Makeup should a 13 year old boy wear (if any) in a 500 seat theater. Any help is appreaciated

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bullet Posted: 8/29/06 at 7:58am
Well, if he hasn't been cast in a show... I would  say none. 

Otherwise, it depends on the show. However, most male roles just call for street makeup, meaning that you want to use a foundation on the face, neck, hands. Use something to give the cheeks some color, and the lips some definition, and a little bit of eyeliner.

Just be subtle, though. You are applying makeup so that he looks 'natural' under the stage lights, not so he looks like he's wearing makeup.

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bullet Posted: 8/29/06 at 4:53pm
The best advice I can off on stage makeup is the mirror rule.  When you look in a mirror, it shows you how your makeup will look from twice the distance away.  In other words, if you are ten feet from the mirror, you're seeing your face from twenty feet away. This should help in determining if you are wearing enough/ too much.

This is no help to me in one of the theaters I work in where the makeup mirrors are in rooms only five or six feet deep and the theater seats 900 including the balcony.
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bullet Posted: 9/02/06 at 2:54am

If it is any help, we have a 176 seat theater, and the people hardle wear make-up (unless we have to).  I have worked in bigger theatrical settings though, where minimal use has been nessesary.  Don't use too much, you'll (or the cast would look like a drag Queen).  Unless that is the desired effect that you need.

 

 

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bullet Posted: 9/02/06 at 7:19pm
So it's Ok to really slather it on when I'm playing the Queen of Hearts in a 100 seat theater? ;)

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bullet Posted: 9/15/06 at 8:29pm
The major key is to see if street makeup will be enough. Also, it
helps to know the theatre and the lighting. If you have been there
before, you know whether or not others needed to use makeup.
When you really need the makeup to be more definitive, you'll know
because the lights will remove any plane on your face that makes it
distinctive. If the lights are strong enough, your face will look
ghostly, or flat, as the audience will not see that there is topgraphy
(different levels), as it's all washed out in light with no shadows.
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bullet Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:01am
Originally posted by Act_1

How much stage Makeup should a 13 year old boy wear (if any) in a 500 seat theater. Any help is appreaciated thanks
9 times out of 10 a 13 year old boy will try anything to get out of wearing stage makeup. You can explain why they need it but they will still try to get away with not putting on the lip color and claim that they don't understand the concept of putting on mascara. In the end you just have to make them do it and check that it's all done. And do a make-up test at one of your dress-runs obviously. He'll be real mad if you go thru all this and he ends up looking like a Cher impersonater
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bullet Posted: 10/26/06 at 9:13pm
My suggestion is that you try it out. The whole purpose is to make sure that under stage lights you still can make out his eyes and features and eyebrows I would say. So try it out and modify it so that it works. You might try it out first to see what features should be emphasised and then to see how the effect is on stage and make notes and do it the last time to time it.
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bullet Posted: 10/27/06 at 1:41am
Funny story from my senior year in high school. We were doing South Pacific. Very small town-we only could afford to do a show every other year. Of course, there were the moms helping out back stage with costumes and makeup, etc. The moms knew as much about stage makup as the boys did.

One note from the director at the end of our Final Dress. "We can go a little lighter on the boys make-up. I can't tell the sailors from the nurses"
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bullet Posted: 10/28/06 at 1:56pm
Many times in the past our state community theatre organization invited Bob Kelly (of "Bob Kelly Makeup" fame) to do workshops for us at our state conference.  His workshops were always great, plus he was a great guy and a lot of fun.  One year, however, he was unable to attend, but arranged for a substitute:  Lee Bayjen (I'm not sure of the spelling) who was head of makeup at one of the major TV networks in NYC (can't remember which one).  He also did a good workshop, and his philosophy on how much makeup to apply was this:  always make up for the fifth row of your theatre.  A good rule of thumb, but I have always wondered:  what if your theatre only has 5 rows!  (like ours!)
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