Thank you David.  That made my day!

 

Yes, I am fortunate to have a career where I can be creative.  Even when I have the budget to buy or rent professional scenery, I prefer to concoct creative things out of "found items" or random trash.  I hord stockpiles of old carpet tubes, shipping foam and paint can lids.  When I walk up and down every aisle of the hardware store, I try to imagine alternate uses for various roofing or plumbing materials.  Most of the stuff I used to build the "barricade" for Les Miserables was junk that people put out to the street as trash. 

 

And as you mentioned, King and I was fun because I got to do things like make "gold rosettes" out of Coke bottles.  In fact, you can see this illustrated in my new blog dedicated to quirky scenic ideas:  http://shabbytech.blogspot.com/

 

And if anyone wants to see my start-to-finish blog on our production of King and I, you can click here:  http://gdsking.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

I am directing a production of Honk this December and am interested in your eggs.  What kind of deal can you give me - we are a very low budget small church theatre.

 

Thanks,

Mary Miller

 

Sorry I didn't get back to you about this - my producer was supposed to handle this because I was out ill.  Anyway, we couldn't find anyone to drive down to get them so feel free to share them with others.  Again, I apologize for our delay in letting you know.

 

Blessings,

Mary