Props, Scenery, Costumes and Makeup: Teddy Bear in The Curious Savage

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Teddy Bear in The Curious Savage

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Topic: Teddy Bear in The Curious Savage

Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Subject: Teddy Bear in The Curious Savage
Date Posted: 10/09/06 at 2:52pm

We have the bear, but we need to make the head removable. This play has been done a lot so I am hoping someone can tell me how they took a regular bear and made it fit the play.

Thanks in advance.

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Barb Hofmeister,
MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona.

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Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 10/10/06 at 7:50am

I would concider removing the head, hemming up the cuts and sealing in the head stuffing with a piece of cloth a few inches into the head... then removing some of the stuffing in the body, insert a tube made of rolled plastic that approximates the size of the head opening with a couple of inches of plastic extending beyond the body... the open space in the tube could be used to hide the documents, and the head should fit over the tube...

Just an idea.. havent done the show in 15 years and my memory is faded on how we actually did it..

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Marty W

"Till next we trod the boards.."

Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 10/10/06 at 5:23pm

Marty's suggestion is the same way we did it 25-30 years ago. Works perfectly!

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"I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!"

Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Date Posted: 10/10/06 at 6:02pm

Thank you both. It sounds easy enough. We will do it that way.
Barb

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Barb Hofmeister,
MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona.

Posted By: Theatregirl25
Date Posted: 11/02/06 at 11:44am

I am currently stage managing this show, we open tomorrow, I hope I am not posting too late for you. For the bear, we decided to not take off it's head, but to go in from the back, there was a seam in his back, and we cut up the back, removed some stuffing, smoothed everything down with a peice of muslin tucked in, and then used hook and eye tape to seal him closed, We also distressed him with ink and removed his eye.

Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 11/03/06 at 10:58am

When I directed this play for a local high school, we did use the technique that Theatregirl25 described. It also worked well, but somehow it lost the impact that tearing off the head produces. And it makes Fairy's comment of "don't hurt him" (I may be paraphrasing there) a little less effective.

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"I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!"