Set Design and Construction: Grease

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Topic: Grease

Posted By: gdharrisayuh
Subject: Grease
Date Posted: 12/10/09 at 3:50pm

I am designing and building the set for Grease at a highschool and am looking for ideas,specificaly a car.Iam thinking styrofoam on a platform.Ido have considerable experince with building sets,not much in design.Any ideas?

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Posted By: startingout
Date Posted: 12/11/09 at 3:46pm

I have built a car with wood and foam

I brought big casters 600 lb 6in wheels

use a 4x8 wagon

I would send pictures if you want

mailto:sgiehtbrock@ssd.k12.mn.us - sgiehtbrock@ssd.k12.mn.us

Posted By: gaftpres
Date Posted: 1/19/10 at 10:02am

An electric golf cart with a frame that makes it look like a 50's car. etc. It is quiet on the stage, and it compact. We were fortunate when we did grease, we found an old car in a field, we cut it down to half the size and used it for the show. It was cool to have the big headlights facing out the audience and to have the car sturdy enough for the greasers to jump on , off and dance over.

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Old volunteers never die, they just get recycled!

Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 1/21/10 at 9:02am

I rented a nice styrofoam car body from Greensboro College for my production last year:

http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseGLightning.JPG - http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseGLightning.JPG http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseGolfCart.JPG -

And I simply put it on top of a borrowed golf cart:

http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseGolfCart.JPG - http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseGolfCart.JPG

The crew had fun driving it around:

http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseTestDrive.JPG - http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseTestDrive.JPG

It was used in the Greased Lightning song as well as the drive-in movie scene:

http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseDriveIn.JPG - http://www.lowell.to/Tech/GreaseDriveIn.JPG

It was built by John Saari, (the designer who invented "Sculpt-or-Coat" glue). Here is his contact info:

http://theatre.greensborocollege.edu/john.html - http://theatre.greensborocollege.edu/john.html

There are 4 or 5 other theaters that rent their own cars around the country. All you have to do is read through the old posts in this forum and you will find tons of previous posts about cars for rent.

Good luck with it....

-Dana

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Mr. Lowell,
Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director,
for the Linda Sloan Theatre,
in the Davison Center for the Arts,
at Greensboro Day School

Posted By: David McCall
Date Posted: 1/21/10 at 11:20am

When using "Sculpt-or-Coat" what do you do for flame proofing?

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David M