Back to the 80's Car
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Category: Producing Theater
Forum Name: Set Design and Construction
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Topic: Back to the 80's Car
Posted By: AndyPandy
Subject: Back to the 80's Car
Date Posted: 5/18/10 at 8:32am
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Hey everyone. Looking for some help here, its just really research for the time being. Doing a production of Back to the 80's in a couple of months, and need to get onto designing and building the scenic stuff. One of the musical numbers is "Get outta my dreams and into my car" which of course needs a car. Our stage wont allow us to put a stripped out real car onstage, so one needs built from scratch. I have a few questions: has anyone doe this show, and what sort of car did you use/ base your construction on? Can anyone give me any cars as examples that are nice and angular? curves are difficult to reproduce in the time/budget i have! |
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 5/18/10 at 10:41pm
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Why not do it similar to the car used in the orginal stage show of Grease! Which was only improvised rostra staging that allowed the punters to use thier imagination & suspend disbelief. I don't know what your production is about, but you can always tart it up with 80's car bits as props, to assist the cast & all the BOS's to utalise 'n stetch thier susspenders.  ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 9/09/10 at 1:36pm
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Hi Andy, we are doing Back to the '80s in February, 2010. I am designing the show but the director has not asked me to build a car yet. Maybe she is going to stage that song without one, I don't know.
-Dana ------------- Mr. Lowell, Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director, for the Linda Sloan Theatre, in the Davison Center for the Arts, at Greensboro Day School |