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Bad Year For Tomatoes

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Topic: Bad Year For Tomatoes

Posted By: brianwolters
Subject: Bad Year For Tomatoes
Date Posted: 5/19/09 at 11:24am

Hi!

I was looking at doing A BAD YEAR FOR TOMATOES. We have a small stage with limited set resources at this time. What kind of set can you do this show on at bare minimum?

Thanks!
Brian

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Posted By: belle
Date Posted: 5/19/09 at 8:21pm

You need the doors--two, I think. One of them is a dutch door (top opens separately from the bottom) that is used for a curtain line at the end of the first act, but you could probably just open a regular door and step in. We had a 30 inch tall set of stairs that I think makes the show easier to run. We didn't have a railing, just the stairs that went off upstage right.

The funiture requirement are minimal although we used a coffee table to crack the nuts so people could see them being whacked. A side table could be use if necessary. We had a love seat and 2 chairs with a side table between. I think there was a rocking chair, too, maybe it could be one of the 2 chairs.

It's a cute show. We've done it twice to great response.

Using a tape recorder for part of the dialog is about the most difficult part as it won't "hold" for laughs or at least we couldn't get it to.

Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Date Posted: 5/20/09 at 3:00pm

We did this show two years ago and the audience loved it. Here is a link to pictures from our dress rehearsal. It could have easily been done with a smaller stage. It was a fun play to do.

Barb

http://www.movinon.net/VillagePlayers/Tomatoes/dressrehearsal.html - http://www.movinon.net/VillagePlayers/Tomatoes/dressrehearsal.html

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Barb Hofmeister,
MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona.

Posted By: jvlsm
Date Posted: 5/22/09 at 8:07pm

RE the recorded bits of BYFT: My group are running lights and sound with a computer program. By recording both scenes in one take; transferring them into Adobe Audition; slicing each line into a separate cue and then loading them into computer's cue list as sound cues, the operator can easily adjust the timing each cue as required

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