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bullet Posted: 7/20/10 at 10:58am
We jus finsihed presenting "HONK!"  Our egggs weren't nearly as elaborate as the one shown previously.  They were simply styrofoam cutouts with the tops coming off.  Each one had a brace behind it.  Simple and inexpesive, but they worked fine for us!
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bullet Posted: 7/21/10 at 12:56pm
We did "Honk, Jr." last summer for a two-week children's musical theatre camp. We just made the "nest", and used kid umbrellas for the egg tops. All the ducks had yellow and Ugly had a light blue one. The kids raised and lowered them in the song, quite easily, and they just folded them up and threw them in the nest at the end.
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bullet Posted: 8/20/10 at 10:20am
Originally posted by David McCall

My goal in life is to be half as creative as you are. I was looking at your "King and I" sets. Absolutely gorgeous. We are doing it next year.
 
Thank you David.  That made my day!
 
Yes, I am fortunate to have a career where I can be creative.  Even when I have the budget to buy or rent professional scenery, I prefer to concoct creative things out of "found items" or random trash.  I hord stockpiles of old carpet tubes, shipping foam and paint can lids.  When I walk up and down every aisle of the hardware store, I try to imagine alternate uses for various roofing or plumbing materials.  Most of the stuff I used to build the "barricade" for Les Miserables was junk that people put out to the street as trash. 
 
And as you mentioned, King and I was fun because I got to do things like make "gold rosettes" out of Coke bottles.  In fact, you can see this illustrated in my new blog dedicated to quirky scenic ideas:  http://shabbytech.blogspot.com/
 
And if anyone wants to see my start-to-finish blog on our production of King and I, you can click here:  http://gdsking.blogspot.com/
 
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bullet Posted: 8/20/10 at 3:03pm
Well folks, as the new school year starts and I get geared up to do "Evita", I have come to the conclusion that I no longer have room in this theatre to store the five Honk eggs pictured above.  So if you are doing "Honk!" with kids this year, please let me know.  Maybe we can work out a deal on them. 
Thanks, Dana
 
 


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bullet Posted: 9/02/10 at 12:08am
Hi Dana,
 
I am directing a production of Honk this December and am interested in your eggs.  What kind of deal can you give me - we are a very low budget small church theatre.
 
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Mary, I need to hear from you again.  I have since received several other requests for the eggs.  Reply soon.  Thanks, Dana
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bullet Posted: 11/18/10 at 11:51am
Hi Dana,
 
Sorry I didn't get back to you about this - my producer was supposed to handle this because I was out ill.  Anyway, we couldn't find anyone to drive down to get them so feel free to share them with others.  Again, I apologize for our delay in letting you know.
 
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bullet Posted: 12/01/10 at 11:49am
UPDATE: 
Yesterday I sold my 5 egg shells from HONK to a community theatre in Wilmington, NC.  So no more inquiries please.  Thanks.

 


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