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Phillip Rayher

Director, Theatre Dept.,
California Educational Theatre Association

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Director, Theatre Dept.,
California Educational Theatre Association
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RE: Searching for a non-musical version of Sweeney Todd

Posted By Phillip Rayher 01-29-2018 15:13
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I did the original melodrama this gal. I will send a list of the 8 versions I used when I get to my home computer.  ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco CA ------------------------------

RE: How to pop beer cans and drink down on stage

Posted By Phillip Rayher 11-22-2017 10:33
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I don't recall which prop book I got this from, but cut the top off a beer can, slice it up the side and inset it over a sota can (clear tape up the seam). It works I have done it. ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts ...

RE: Performance Absence Policy

Posted By Phillip Rayher 07-21-2017 11:31
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What is your Districts or Schools Athletic programs policy about days of games? Does this not have to be a school wide policy to have any teeth? ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco CA ---------------- ...

RE: SWEENEY TODD - The Melodrama

Posted By Phillip Rayher 03-22-2017 21:04
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Thank you Ginny, I looked of the thread. What I forgot to mention that we are doing it in a three sided thrust studio theatre that seats 100. So observation is very close. ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco ...

SWEENEY TODD — The Melodrama

Posted By Phillip Rayher 03-18-2017 16:59
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I am doing Sweeney Todd THE ORIGINAL MELODRAMA (not the Bond version or the musical) at Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in the fall. Need help with the Chair (purchase something like it to use as a base) and (of course) the blood bulb razors (to buy) . Already did internet search, thought I saw ...

RE: acoustic panel ideas

Posted By Phillip Rayher 08-14-2016 19:26
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I used Tectum Panels in both my Drama Studio on the walls in panels (now closed) and the architect used them also in our new Studio Theatre (covered with fabric but I think they look fine uncovered and painted). ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San ...

RE: Any Stage Lighting Equipment Expert?

Posted By Phillip Rayher 03-12-2016 08:57
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Why stage pins when three prong twist locks work just find and won't pull out. I haven't worked in a theatre with stage pins in many years. ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco CA

RE: Headshot/Resume/Casting Unit/Lessons

Posted By Phillip Rayher 11-25-2015 21:50
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RE: Headshot/Resume/Casting Unit/Lessons

Posted By Phillip Rayher 11-25-2015 21:50
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Here are some pages that might be helpful from my book ACTING IS ACTION. I hope they help. ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco CA

RE: Online Ticketing System

Posted By Phillip Rayher 09-25-2015 08:38
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Brown Paper tickets. Don't know if company is national. ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco CA ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 09-24-2015 ...

RE: It's gonna be a looooooong year. Please help.

Posted By Phillip Rayher 09-03-2015 11:31
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Mike is spot on. I recall the advice I got early on "never talk while other people are talking (students). Never!" As I passed this on to other teachers, especially those in inner city schools) they would respond with "I will never talk than, because they would never stop!" Could be 10 minutes, could ...

RE: Stage Combat Scene Ideas and Playwriting Master Classes

Posted By Phillip Rayher 07-18-2015 17:24
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Kyna Hamill They Fight: Classical to Contemporary Stage Fight Scenes (Career Development Series) ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco CA ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- ...

RE: YoungArts

Posted By Phillip Rayher 06-23-2015 11:40
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The National YoungArts Foundation (you probably remember it under its previous name the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, or NFAA) is a talent-based scholarship program. It is the flagship program of the National YoungArts Foundation. The program is considered by many to be the most prestigious ...

RE: Costume Organization

Posted By Phillip Rayher 06-11-2015 21:12
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Even though I have been at Asawa SOTA for 25 years, I still forget every once in a while that "you get what you pay for" rather than wait and buy a quality fog machine because of the price, I buy "3" cheap ones and have to throw them out, the same thing is true of costume racks. I suggest you just slowly ...

RE: Our Town

Posted By Phillip Rayher 04-30-2015 12:08
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"Gender bent" is not the phrase I think you want. Are you using "non-traditional casting" or non-gender specific casting. We also use color blind casting. ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco CA ------ ...

RE: Platform Construction

Posted By Phillip Rayher 03-21-2015 13:57
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I for awhile was using 1" ply (yes 1" ply) lid with 1 x lumber base (stripped down 1 x 12 pine to 5" strips- therefore making platform 6" high, a good step height). This system needs a nail gun, therefore a little hard for students. The outside 4 corners are reinforced with leg-a-matic corner brackets ...

RE: Theater Texts for a Classroom

Posted By Phillip Rayher 03-19-2015 21:42
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The Teacher's Bookshelf HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA TEXTS Grace Barnes and Mary Jean Sutcliff. ON STAGE, EVERYONE. Macmillan, 1961 Dennis Caltagirone. THEATRE ARTS: The Dynamics of Acting. (4th ed.) National Textbook Company, 1997. 329 pgs., hdbk. -------------------------. TEACHER'S RESOURCE BOOK ...

RE: Rolling Drops

Posted By Phillip Rayher 03-06-2015 13:20
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I wish I could remember which company sold a roll drop kit- bottom aluminum tube and all hardware and rope. I'll try to look it up later. The problem with large rental drops is that they a too wide and would not be supported in the middle. 18' or so wide drops can roll well. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Victorian Costume Rental

Posted By Phillip Rayher 02-20-2015 13:48
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This is also called the gentleman's emporium AND the ladies emporium. I have used them for the madwoman of chaillot and other productions. I find cost and quality great. ------------------------------ Phillip Rayher Director, Theatre Dept. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts San Francisco ...

RE: Open Forum : Forgotten Monologue

Posted By Phillip Rayher 01-14-2015 15:55
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I'm thinking it's from Jane Wagner's The Search for signs of Intelligent life in the universe (Lily Tomlin), but I could be wrong. Many of my female students have done it over the past few years (I'll ask them). It is overdone at college auditions, but I haven't see it at my entrance auditions for a ...