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RE: Pit Cover

Posted By Robert Birdsong 05-02-2024 13:12
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Ours is a Wenger product of 26 interlocking (with coffin locks) inserts on top of an aluminum frame. These inserts also form the floor at the bottom on a shorter aluminum frame. All of it manual, no lift. Which makes it a HUGE job should we wish to uncover it. We haven't used ours in years. We do have ...

RE: Looking for Short Form Horror Plays for High School

Posted By Robert Birdsong 08-17-2023 12:38
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https://yourstagepartners.com/i-am-frankenstein -- BOB BIRDSONG STAGECRAFT TEACHER, FACILITY ADMINISTRATOR, PCSSD Phone: 501-234-2641 RBIRDSONG1588@PCSSD.ORG

RE: Looking for Short Form Horror Plays for High School

Posted By Robert Birdsong 08-17-2023 12:37
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"I Am Frankenstein" by John Haman. -- BOB BIRDSONG STAGECRAFT TEACHER, FACILITY ADMINISTRATOR, PCSSD Phone: 501-234-2641 RBIRDSONG1588@PCSSD.ORG

RE: Still looking for Plays...

Posted By Robert Birdsong 08-03-2023 10:19
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We premiered an excellent play that is great for October-November called "I Am Frankenstein" by John Haman. It tells the story straight from the novel, but also includes a chorus called The Blackbirds, and portrays a young Mary Shelley. Very well written and published now by Your Stage Partners. Nicely ...

RE: Music licensing

Posted By Robert Birdsong 02-07-2023 11:16
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The rights to use of the Lennon/McCartney song catalog is now controlled and administered by Epic Rights. https://www.epicrights.com/lennon-and-mccartney-lyrics/Of course, Ringo wrote a couple, as did George. I believe that George is still under Northern Music. -- BOB BIRDSONG STAGECRAFT TEACHER, ...

RE: Sound Board Advice

Posted By Robert Birdsong 02-03-2023 12:18
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A digital console is less linear. The Mackie has a channel strip dedicated to each input and is laid out in a very logical pattern. A digital console will save all of your settings for you, but has a higher learning curve. If the only people using it are school staff and student crew for assemblies, ...

RE: Sound Board Advice

Posted By Robert Birdsong 01-27-2023 09:58
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Most consoles have preamps in them, so in many cases you are padding an already padded signal. Did you blow your budget on the body mic rigs? If not, Sweetwater has a simple Mackie 24 channel console for 950.

Halloween Play recommendations Attachments

Posted By Robert Birdsong 07-01-2021 07:42
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RE: Wa Tan Ye in Music Man

Posted By Robert Birdsong 01-15-2020 11:14
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Yeah. You should see some of the historical, unedited scripts from "Showboat" and "Oklahoma!" And Dinner Theatres around the country will still do the Sitting Bull stuff in "Annie Get Your Gun,' and of course the aforementioned "Wa Tan Ye" girls. And Lordy, what about Ito in "Mame?"

RE: The ever dreaded show selection

Posted By Robert Birdsong 01-06-2020 11:45
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged was a huge hit at our school.

RE: 7 BRIDES

Posted By Robert Birdsong 01-06-2020 11:37
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Just don't cut the Suitors Lament. It is the only funny moment in the entire show. I was in the chorus at a dinner theatre for that show and spent a lot of time reading magazines.

RE: Difficult Behaviors

Posted By Robert Birdsong 12-05-2019 10:38
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Replace him and let him fail.  If rehearsals happen during class, then it is obvious this person took a performance class as an elective.  Ensure that the parent knows that you have no choice but to let him or her fail, and move on.  This world isn't for everybody, and some students are INTENDING to ...

RE: stage flooring?

Posted By Robert Birdsong 10-03-2019 14:40
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When our new space was built, they installed a tongue in groove under placement of 1" plywood in two layers, but the covering is Masonite in 3 foot squares.   That way if one panel gets damaged you just replace it.  Sounds great with tap shoes on it and just needs to be painted every fall or so. ...

RE: When Shows Require Diversity but the School is Not Diverse

Posted By Robert Birdsong 10-01-2019 15:52
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I am having difficulty of a different sort.  I come from good solid Viking stock, but I am "woke" enough to know that I need to serve the communities, all of them, that feed to my school.   In the past we did total color blind and gender blind casting, and made sure everyone got to participate who wanted ...