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Topic: Best Little ... Texas

Posted By: domiii
Subject: Best Little ... Texas
Date Posted: 5/09/08 at 9:20pm

We are new to this forum. This was a great place to find!!! If any one did Best Little Whorehouse, how did you do the 20 fans?? My director is insisting on 20 fans. I am trying to resist. Our stage is only 9 feet high floor to ceiling. Any suggestions? Any help would be most appreciated.

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Karen & Dom

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Posted By: spikesgirl
Date Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:33am

We did the show, but only had four fans (in the girls' rooms). We built them (used foamcore for the blades to keep them light) and put little battery operated motors inside. I guess you could do that, but it's going to be expensive - perhaps you could go to a local hardware store for some prices and see if that convinces your director. sometimes money speaks louder than anything!

Charlie

Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:45am

Get him to try & think about &/or do the sums!

Measure the diameter of the fan & work it out the area of space needed?

Why not use an old colour wheel on a profile lamp, to simulate the lighting effect. Mask off the colour apertures on the wheel disk, shaped up as the blades of the sweep fan.

I have used this to give the effect of the sails of a windmill for Man of La Mancha.

But as for 20 me thinks the director is up the creek without a paddle.

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[western] Gondawandaland
"Hear the light & see the sound!
TOI TOI CHOOKAS
{may you always play to a full house!}

Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 5/12/08 at 12:44pm

The audience never saw the inside of the girl's rooms in our version therefore eliminating the need for the fans actually being seen. It was kind of like the fornicating. They sang about it but the audience didn't actually have to see it to understand what was going on. (Wink Wink)

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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse

Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:49am

Or, patrick, they could substitute beavers....

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Marty W

"Till next we trod the boards.."

Posted By: Tjelvar
Date Posted: 7/01/08 at 10:33pm

We never did use the fans last year, if there's no ceiling, there's no ceiling fans ;-> The show carries itself too well, there's no need for clutter imo.

Posted By: jaytee060
Date Posted: 7/02/08 at 9:38am

BEAVERS ?

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BEAVERS !

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"REMEMBER ME IN LIGHT"

Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 7/02/08 at 10:13am

OK. An explanation is owed to those not in on the joke. During a play selection meeting last year the subject of questionable content in shows was discussed. One of our members thought Whorehouse would be innappropriate. Not because of the prostitution angle, but because of the mention of beavers in the first song. All of us familiar with the show began scratching our heads in puzzlement. She explained about the line in "20 Fans" where the fans were needed because "beavers were a burnin, they were burnin, beavers were a burnin all night long". She was rather embarrassed when it was pointed out the actual lyrics are about "fevers" not "beavers". Needless to say she has not lived this down.

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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse

Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 7/02/08 at 11:22am

How does she feel about "June is Busting Out All Over?"

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"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone