Cinderella set
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Topic: Cinderella set
Posted By: kmdded
Subject: Cinderella set
Date Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:40am
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Does anyone have pictures of your sets for Cinderella. Just looking for ideas at this point. We are producing this the weekend before Thanksgiving. THanks Kathie with Louivsille Youth THeatre |
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Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:12pm
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Yes, I do, I am not sure on how to upload them here though. Basically, we had the Village drop, Garden Drop, House set, which split in two to take of stage, and the back half of the stage was the ballroom. The other set of the show was the royal dressing room which was a drapped (using velvety plush fabric) wagon platform that was the enterance through the traveler curtain.
I would be glad to e-mail them to you if you would like. ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |
Posted By: bmiller025
Date Posted: 6/17/07 at 12:51pm
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I have done a few productions in my time, and have photos in my online portfolio. The first was a community theater production, and the second was a professional one.
http://members.aol.com/bmiller025/Cinderella-Stamford.htm - Cinderella
http://members.aol.com/bmiller025/Cinderella.htm - Cinderella
If you need more detail, or explanations of how we did things, let me know!
------------- http://www.brianmiller.biz/BrianDesign.htm |
Posted By: kmdded
Date Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:04pm
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Okay I love your pictures. The ones from Nomad seemed like an easier set to do. DId you all build the steps or were they part of the theatre? Kathie |
Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 6/23/07 at 12:17am
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Hi Kathie, I used a lot of backdrops for my middle school production of Cinderella. But the one that really made the show work, and one that I highly recommend for you, is the castle exterior backdrop from Kenmark. This is a very vivid and colorful drop! It made the show "pop". The lead characters stood in front of this drop for the photo we used on our permanent theatre poster. (You can also use this drop as your Show Curtain). Here is a picture of it...number D492. A beautiful drop at a good price!
http://kenmark-inc.com/pages/catalogs/catalog491-500.html - http://kenmark-inc.com/pages/catalogs/catalog491-500.html
Break a leg! -Dana
------------- Mr. Lowell, Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director, for the Linda Sloan Theatre, in the Davison Center for the Arts, at Greensboro Day School |
Posted By: bmiller025
Date Posted: 6/23/07 at 8:02pm
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We built those steps. The stage in that theater is very deep - 36 feet and the stage width is less than that. The flats at the sides were on pivot points so that they could be rotated in front of the stairs upstage. On SL, the palace ballroom was on one side, and the kitchen of the house, with a huge fireplace mounted to it was on the other. On the other side, the Throne room of the palace was on one side, and the ballroom was on the other. We did a very wonderful carriage effect. It was mounted at the top of the stairs upstage, and was revealed with a falling curtain. The pumpkin was on a small trap door which opened as the carriage was revealed, causing it to fall down and out of sight. The same happened to the caged mouse as well, revealing a cut-out horse. The horse's legs and the carriage wheels spun to indicate movement. We also had a very nifty costume for Cinderella, transforming her rags into the ball gown.
I realize now that I never included photos of the carriage! I may still have other photos out there somewhere - nope.
It may take me a little while, but I will post more to http://members.aol.com/bmiller025/Cindy/Cinderella.htm - http://members.aol.com/bmiller025/Cindy/Cinderella.htm asap.
------------- http://www.brianmiller.biz/BrianDesign.htm |
Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 6/23/07 at 11:02pm
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bmiller025, I see that you used a real fountain in your production as well. I think it was a big mistake for us, made me want to use the restroom each time it was on. ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |
Posted By: Linda S
Date Posted: 6/24/07 at 9:24am
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Hi Kathie,
Last fall I was asked to step in and take over the tech for a production of Cinderella. Needless to say everything was done on the fly. They were three weeks from opening without a set, costumes, lights, props, nothing! There was almost no money in the budget. I called a friend who does murals. She did the fabulous mural on the back wall in 8 working hours; five one day, three the next. The stairs were three that were in stock from Sound of Music, Arsenic & Old Lace and some other show. We painted them all the same color and it worked. My carpenter and I pulled everything from the set room that we thought might work, called a crew and screwed flats and platforms together until we ran out of material. The local lumber yard donated $200 worth of strapping and 2x4s, so we had support materials. I only bought one can of paint. The rest was what we had in stock and mixed it together with the help of two other artists who did all of the faux finishing. My brilliant costumer did what she called gorilla costuming and got everyone into appropriate costumes by raiding not only her costumes, but the theater's, mine and another theater's. (Ignore the fairy godmother's costume. She made it herself. That is whole drama by itself.) I called the best prop person and set dresser I know and with them everything was ready by opening night . . . barely. Anyway these are a few of the pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zillart/sets/72157594400734483/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zillart/sets/72157594400734483/
Linda
PS: I forgot to mention. They wanted the whole thing done with a Christmas theme, because the show opened the first week of December.
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Posted By: bmiller025
Date Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:00am
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Tigger, no it was a fake fountain. I know what you mean regarding real fountains onstage! We had fiber optic strands for the streams of water, and I lit it in such a way that the whole thing glowed very nicely. In the scene where the Prince and Cinderella are off by themselves, the fountain was the motivated light source for the scene. There was barely enough light on the two of them to see their faces, but we were able to balance it satisfactorily, and you can get away with such things in a small theater. :)
Linda, thanks for posting the photos of your production! What an ordeal! I can't imagine going through the whole process for a show like this from start to finish in three weeks! I have done builds in that amount of time, but the designs usually sit around for a couple weeks beforehand, so that everyone can figure out what needs to happen before the change-over begins! ------------- http://www.brianmiller.biz/BrianDesign.htm |
Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 6/26/07 at 4:00pm
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bmiller025, that is so cool that you used fiber optic, from the picture it looked so real. But a closer look I could see what you are talking about. I wish I thought of that for our show, we finally compromised by creating two large fountains in the pit area. (We used the full theater for blocking of the show). Wished I found this site when I was fully working in theater. ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |
Posted By: edesigns
Date Posted: 5/27/09 at 4:44pm
| We are performing Cinderella in the spring and I was looking for ideas- do you still have photos you could share? |