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King Stag - Antlers and Dummy
A last minute addition to the props list required a pair of antlers to be built and secured to a cloth dummy to be carried around during the show.
King Stag - BUST
During King Stag the King takes the bust [which was played by an actor only moments before] and throws it on the ground shattering it.
First we made a mold of a styrofoam head and then using a frankenstein mask, both made busts that were too heavy. Finally we took a styrofoam head, cut it into pieces, plastered each side of each piece so it wouldn’t dent or bounce and taped it loosely back together
Urinetown - Neon Sign
Project for Independent Study Technical Design Class.
The Neon Sign was made by taking Polyethylene tubing and kerfing it to fit the shape. Then a piece of EL wire was pushed through the Polyethylene tubing. Thus the tubing could not be kerfed past the turning radius of the EL wire.
Connecting the tubing and kerfing to the backing board was the biggest struggle of this project. In the end small holes were drilled and pieces of gardening wire stuck through them and twisted on the backside of the mounting flat to keep the tubing in place. This resulted in a less than perfect mounting job.
Little Mermaid - Triton’s Trident
I was asked to make a custom trident for the Columbus Academy Middle School production of The Little Mermaid JR. The shaft was made from one tall dowel bar with rope twisted around it and all of it was spray painted brown and then dry brushed with golds and silvers. The head was made from a piece of styrofoam cut to shape and then filed down to give it semi-rounded edges. It was then lined in twine.
Addams Family - Grandma’s Cart
Made from odds and ends around the shop strategically balanced and secured down. With items that needed to be used as hand props during the scene specially secured for pulling the cart on and off stage through magnets and wire.
Shrek! The musical, jr - Duloc/Swamp Sign
This sign rolled across the stage on a pully track the line of which was run across the stage just before this scene happened.
It was constructed first by making a base platform out of scraps and then connecting a 2x4 at an angle. These were covered in sprayable styrofoam to give texxture.
The two sign pieces were made of styrofoam, beaten up with a crowbar for their edges, painted, dry brushed and spray painted to look hand-painted by an ogre as well as old and worn.
Shrek! The musical, jr S’nothers
These were supposed to be sandwhiches made of bark, moss and squirrel guts.
They were made by taking two rectangular bricks of green gardening foam, slowly carving this shape out, and sponge brush painting the details.
Sticks from the outdoors were then selected and skewered into the ‘snothers’ and then secured with hot glue that was painted to look like moss squirting out and then being burnt by the heat of the fire.
Shrek! The musical, jr. “Beware Of Ogre” sign
Cut from one large piece of styrofoam a soldering iron was used to get the dimension. It was then painted with both brushes and spray paint and then the lettering and self portrait were added before the sign was mounted on the front of his hut.