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

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

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

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

by John Kaluta

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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. • Written in a clear, direct, and jargon-free style • Features 45 lively anecdotes from the author’s own experience working in virtually every backstage capacity

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781581153156
Publisher: Allworth
Publication date: 11/01/2003
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 659,775
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

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 Showvii
Cue 1Ready1
Cue 2Get Set15
Cue 3Go. Scene Painting Workshop39
Cue 4Go. Build the Thing Already59
Cue 5Go. Fix the Lights91
Cue 6Go. Fix the Sound117
Cue 7Go. Publicity137
Cue 8Go. Rehearsals, and Life145
Cue 9Go. Working Backstage155
Cue 10Go. Patching the Lights165
Cue 11Go. More on Sound193
Cue 12Go. Setting Cues199
Cue 13Go. The Week Before the Show209
Cue 14Go. Curtain Up213
Cue 15Go Home, the Show's Over221
Acknowledgments227
Appendixes231
Index236
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