We ended up borrowing a "handicap scooter" from a local grocery store and then building around it with wood and foamboard. It sounds weird but it looked great and could be driven on and off the stage so the audience loved it.

 

For the beds...I used two (one for Marty and one for Sandy) on raised platforms that extended into the auditorium....we built them out of wood, regular twin bed size, painted them black, and then just covered them with bedspreads, pillows, and stuffed animals. No one would have known that they were not real beds. Using the platforms allowed me to set both those scenes in advance and leave them there for the entire show making for very quick scene changes.

 

Hope this helps.

Donna Ogle

    We just did "Grease" last fall and we had a community person donate an old sedan to the school, tax writeoff for him, and then took it to the Auto shop kids and turned them loose on it.   They turned a sedan into a convertible, added fins on the back and took any and all off it that was heavy.  Left the seats, steering colum, wheels and horn and lights.

Used the set which was two levels, upper hallway and lower (stage ) area.  Made the lower hall/stage level open into a "garage" and the inside of the "garage" doors were the set background for the "shop" in "Grease".

     We rolled the car onto and off stage as needed.   We used a cable attached to the rear axle as a safety mechanism in case someone pushed too hard or forgot where they were.  Our director and also our musicians were a little nervous about this full size car coming at them while they were in the pit.  Don't know why, I guess they don't trust there Tech Crew.

     Hope this helps.   By the way we re-donated the car to the shop kids...they are still playing with it.

Charlie