Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: What is the craziest thing you ever had to make?

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Theatermama
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Posted: 3/29/11 at 5:13pm

I turned 4 kids into pop cans this summer, made a train costume for a grown man to wear, had to create a "wound" with glass and blood coming out that actor applied during intermission, planet costumes, various birds, and chicken poop suits from a play about a chicken factory where they killed chickens.

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Posted: 5/17/11 at 7:16pm

Well, I've only been on the production side for a short time. To this point, my only "weird" contraption was an old vacuum cleaner that would explode on cue and then be puppeted later in the act. We also had to make a functional Humpty Dumpty costume. That was fun.

However, on the acting side, I've been in productions that involved a rotating mountain (The Jungle Book), an electric powered raft that rolled around the auditorium (Big River), a 200 foot snake puppet (The Jungle Book), moving trains, rising elevators, all sorts of flown apparatuses, and we had a variety of cool spring-loaded hidden arrows in tables and walls for Robin Hood.

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MonsterSet
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Posted: 6/10/11 at 9:46pm

Well I don’t know if it was crazy, but was fun.

For “Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” I build a full size replica of the 1969 VW Woodstock Van out of wood and put a golf cart inside to drive across the stage. Joseph was taken to Egypt by hippies.

And last month for “Gypsy”, I built a full size replica of a 1928 Rolls Royce Phantom II convertible that stretched from 10ft to 14ft, while crossing the stage.

I guess the crazy part was that neither was onstage for more than 2 minutes.

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Posted: 9/24/11 at 9:14am

We produced the production "Some Things You Need To Know Before The World Ends. A Final Evening With The Illuminati". It calls for a LOT of props, but my favorite was the self flagellation bike. When ridden a wheel spins and slaps the rider. Extremely fun to make and it was hard to keep the audience off of it after each show.

Here's some pics of the show: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.408217593506.185673.130171553506

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Topic: What is the craziest thing you ever had to make?
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Theatermama Star Joined: 7/23/10 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 60	Posted: 3/29/11 at 5:13pm
	I turned 4 kids into pop cans this summer, made a train costume for a grown man to wear, had to create a "wound" with glass and blood coming out that actor applied during intermission, planet costumes, various birds, and chicken poop suits from a play about a chicken factory where they killed chickens.
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MusicManD Star Joined: 3/21/11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 91	Posted: 5/17/11 at 7:16pm
	Well, I've only been on the production side for a short time. To this point, my only "weird" contraption was an old vacuum cleaner that would explode on cue and then be puppeted later in the act. We also had to make a functional Humpty Dumpty costume. That was fun. However, on the acting side, I've been in productions that involved a rotating mountain (The Jungle Book), an electric powered raft that rolled around the auditorium (Big River), a 200 foot snake puppet (The Jungle Book), moving trains, rising elevators, all sorts of flown apparatuses, and we had a variety of cool spring-loaded hidden arrows in tables and walls for Robin Hood.
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MonsterSet Walk-On Joined: 9/19/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 6/10/11 at 9:46pm
	Well I don’t know if it was crazy, but was fun. For “Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” I build a full size replica of the 1969 VW Woodstock Van out of wood and put a golf cart inside to drive across the stage. Joseph was taken to Egypt by hippies. And last month for “Gypsy”, I built a full size replica of a 1928 Rolls Royce Phantom II convertible that stretched from 10ft to 14ft, while crossing the stage. I guess the crazy part was that neither was onstage for more than 2 minutes.
	Thank you...
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GElliott Lead Joined: 3/05/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 33	Posted: 9/24/11 at 9:14am
	We produced the production "Some Things You Need To Know Before The World Ends. A Final Evening With The Illuminati". It calls for a LOT of props, but my favorite was the self flagellation bike. When ridden a wheel spins and slaps the rider. Extremely fun to make and it was hard to keep the audience off of it after each show. Here's some pics of the show: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.408217593506.185673.130171553506
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