Newbie Needs Help with a Fireplace & Piano
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Topic: Newbie Needs Help with a Fireplace & Piano
Posted By: imaginatory
Subject: Newbie Needs Help with a Fireplace & Piano
Date Posted: 10/30/07 at 10:19am
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Hi,
My little kids theater company is doing a medley of Christmas scenes and I need to build a lightweight fireplace and a mock piano that I can set an electric key board on. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
Joyfully,
Barb
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Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 10/30/07 at 4:10pm
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Hey! We use paper mache to build rock/brick looking things all the time. We have build beautiful field stone fireplaces that look incredibly real with paper mache rocks. Mix up your paper mache and paste it onto a flat, or MDF in rock like shapes, then paint to look like rocks, this can be built/used to create any type of fireplace shape that you need. We have also used old mantlepieces to make great fireplaces, with fake brick on the inside and one of those flickering cloth fake fire lamps that come out around halloween. http://campkiwanee.com/drama2.htm - http://campkiwanee.com/drama2.htm If you scroll down an look at the Murder at Town Meeting picture you will see one of the fireplaces we created. good luck! ------------- Community Theater makes us smile |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 10/30/07 at 9:09pm
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Have a look at the First Page Article on the Greenroom site here;- Fireplace article;-
../how_to/fireplac.htm - http://www.communitytheater.org/how_to/fireplac.htm And also look at this site;- Cardboard King stage Scenery;-
http://www.geocities.com/cbking43/cardboardkingpage1.html - http://www.geocities.com/cbking43/cardboardkingpage1.html This may give some idea for the Piano? ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: imaginatory
Date Posted: 10/31/07 at 2:38pm
| This is great...my brain is moving now! |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 11/01/07 at 2:26am
For the piano if it's just an upright 'joanna' I would think a similar size topless
flat wooden crate. turned on it's side, with castors fitted on it's under
side. Then make a shelf to acomodate the keyboard & tart it up with
either ply profiles or cardbord, to give it the contour shape.would be easier enough. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: imaginatory
Date Posted: 11/02/07 at 9:28am
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I got the fireplace mantle done out of cardboard and plan to work on the piano today...JoeMc ...your idea is pretty much what I'm doing ( or hope to do : )) I am going to use the cardboard because kids have to move the set pieces pretty quickly. Basically we're black box theater and the set changes are choreographed so the actors do it.
Only 25 days until the show ... whew!
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Posted By: Kim L.
Date Posted: 12/05/07 at 8:06pm
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It is funny I saw your post. We are a week away from production of Little Women. We had to build both a fireplace (light weight) and a piano.
The fireplace came out magnificent. I used cardboard. I took double thickness cardboard and glued two pieces together to form the front and sides of the wood fireplace. I then made moulding out of cardboard and faux finished it to look like wood grain with a varnish finish. I am using a wood shelf so that we can put candlesticks and a clock on the mantle. Someone else volunteered to make the piano. I have my doubts about how it is going to turn out. I like the crate or pallette idea. Kim ------------- Kim |