Set Design and Construction: Set Design for Grease

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Set Design for Grease

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Topic: Set Design for Grease

Posted By: joeschel
Subject: Set Design for Grease
Date Posted: 1/25/11 at 5:32pm

Does anyone have set designs for Grease?

I am helping a high school in Memphis with this musical. I have experience building sets but I am not a designer.

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Joe Schellenberg

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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 2/01/11 at 3:19am

G'day Joe

When I did this I sort of followed the original shows design, as being in cartoon colours & simply utilising portable rostra depicting the various scenes.

The car was just two chairs set between rostra that was either revolved or trucked on/off & the punters allowed to use their imagination.

However it ended up being compromised & tarted up with an actual hot rod car.

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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: 2/01/11 at 12:26pm

This is the perfect opportunity to pull non-traditional theatre students into a production. Contact your industrial arts classes or your vocational carreer centers. Pull in archetectural studies students to design and carpentry students to build and your arts classes to dress. Make this a school wide production.

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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse

Posted By: startingout
Date Posted: 2/03/11 at 10:34am

I have Built the set for this show

I have pictures if you would like to see them

I use a 4x8 wagon with 600 pound casters

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