The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater

by John Kaluta

Overview

Here is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost, low-tech approaches to painting scenery, building sets, hanging lights, setting cues, and operating sound. They’ll also find crucial guidance for generating publicity, preparing tickets, technical rehearsals, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581159400
Publisher:	Allworth
Publication date:	01/13/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

John Kaluta is a public high school teacher who has overseen dozens of school and community theater productions. During the last twenty-five years, he has served as a technical director, museum artist, carpenter, television studio equipment installer, pyrotechnics operator, lighting designer, set designer, and rock tour "roadie." He lives in Beltsville, Maryland.

Table of Contents

	Preface: It's All About the Show	vii
Cue 1	Ready	1
Cue 2	Get Set	15
Cue 3	Go. Scene Painting Workshop	39
Cue 4	Go. Build the Thing Already	59
Cue 5	Go. Fix the Lights	91
Cue 6	Go. Fix the Sound	117
Cue 7	Go. Publicity	137
Cue 8	Go. Rehearsals, and Life	145
Cue 9	Go. Working Backstage	155
Cue 10	Go. Patching the Lights	165
Cue 11	Go. More on Sound	193
Cue 12	Go. Setting Cues	199
Cue 13	Go. The Week Before the Show	209
Cue 14	Go. Curtain Up	213
Cue 15	Go Home, the Show's Over	221
	Acknowledgments	227
	Appendixes	231
	Index	236