great door idea
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Topic: great door idea
Posted By: Pandora
Subject: great door idea
Date Posted: 3/02/10 at 6:42am
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We reuse two wagons with flat birch doors for every show. A local graphics company makes us reusable, sticky-backed panels the size of the door in any style we need - rustic for Fiddler, 6 panel for drawing room, etc. for $25 a panel. From the front row, you can't tell that the doors are really flat. Shipping would be minimal as they come in tubes. For $100, it looks as though we've got new doors every time.
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Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 3/02/10 at 2:08pm
OK I'll bite. What's the graphics company?
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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 3/02/10 at 10:34pm
Good tip Pandora!
Our props bloke, at my old theatre. Has a mate in the printing game & gets graphic printing done on vynil. Producing thinks like book shelves & grog bottle from behind a bar.
The only limit is in the width of the vynil & length is not a great problem. It has only cost the odd bottle of whisky or a few slabs of beer tinnies & on occasions a couple of cartons. Dedpending upon the value of work done in our local currency of the local beer economy.
All the prop bod does is supply a photo pic or trani of the set piece required.
But the sticky back is a good clue, as the vynil set pieces tend to evaporate after the show?
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[western] Gondawandaland
"Hear the light & see the sound!
TOI TOI CHOOKAS
{may you always play to a full house!}
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Posted By: Pandora
Date Posted: 4/25/10 at 8:55pm
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Sorry I didnt see your reply sooner! The graphics company we used is pdfsolutions.com, and their website is www.millstreetgroup.com. We've used them twice now for two different door looks, and I couldn't be more pleased. My contact there is Jon. Thanks!
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