That Darned "Oklahoma!" Little Wonder
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Topic: That Darned "Oklahoma!" Little Wonder
Posted By: tristanrobin
Subject: That Darned "Oklahoma!" Little Wonder
Date Posted: 11/28/07 at 1:03pm
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everybody always has a monster of a time getting that darned prop to work correctly. I just ran across this surfing the web...wouldn't it work perfectly for the Little Wonder?! of course, it would also guarantee a huge laugh if used cleverly in "Grease"  http://stupid.com/stat/DWCB.html |
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Posted By: jaime9701
Date Posted: 11/30/07 at 2:04pm
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It's funny you say that because we did oklahoma this summer and i did use that very comb. i attached it to the inside of pvc and popped it out of a slit we had cut. good luck!!!! ------------- Jaime |
Posted By: Alicia
Date Posted: 5/13/08 at 1:13pm
| does anyone have or know of where I could hire one of these darn Little Wonders??? |
Posted By: spikesgirl
Date Posted: 5/14/08 at 10:34am
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We made two of them for the show - one that had a six inch wooden spike pop out (for demo) and a 'safe version' that the actors could use. Took two strudy carboard tubes (one slight smaller than the other) and put them together like a telescope. Inside one we mounted a rubber band activated 'spike', with a stopper on the end to keep it from springing entire out of the case. When you spun the end piece and lined the hole up with the spike, out it pop. Was very effective, but we had to watch the actors backstage. For some reason, they were determined to put an eye out with it - hence the 'safe' one for them to play with. We still have our "Little Wonder " around here somewhere... took less than a couple of hours to make both of them.
Charlie
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Posted By: salsmanc
Date Posted: 6/05/08 at 7:54am
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Do you have any pictures of these that you made?
------------- Connie |
Posted By: spikesgirl
Date Posted: 6/06/08 at 10:11am
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Gosh, I'd have to dig around in the photo archives to see. We didn't take any 'production' photos when we put it together as it was just sort of a 'what else needs to be done?' moment that inspired it.
Charlie
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