Props, Scenery, Costumes and Makeup: Chip's Cart

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Chip's Cart

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Topic: Chip's Cart

Posted By: Tammy Breitman
Subject: Chip's Cart
Date Posted: 12/07/08 at 11:36am

Any suggestions for constructing Chip's cart for Beauty and the Beast? I would also entertain a rental of the cart (and Maurice's invention) if your theater is nearby.)

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Tammy B.

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Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:25pm

Hi Tammy,

the script does not call for the old magician's trick of using slanted mirrors under chips cart. But many people like to use it. I just used a small catering cart with a bed skit around it and it worked fine. The boy sat on a tiny stool and could rotate around. The coffee cup head was rented.

Here is a photo. http://www.lowell.to/posters/Beast41.jpg - http://www.lowell.to/posters/Beast41.jpg

But if you want the mirror effect, there are other topic threads on this forum that discuss the construction of it. And maybe someone still has their's for sale.

For the father's invention I borrowed a "HoverRound" electric scooter and built a simple box over it with various gadgets and logs.

Photo: http://www.lowell.to/posters/Beast04.jpg - http://www.lowell.to/posters/Beast04.jpg

And inside was a chorus girl who "chopped wood".

Photo. http://www.lowell.to/posters/Beast44.jpg - http://www.lowell.to/posters/Beast44.jpg

Good luck, Dana

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Mr. Lowell,
Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director,
for the Linda Sloan Theatre,
in the Davison Center for the Arts,
at Greensboro Day School