Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 00:45:39 EDT
From: Andrew_Young-AT-KIWI.COM (Andrew Young)
Subject: Re: Blacklight Puppetry


Wow, jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au wrote me Sun  7 Jul 96 22:04 about Re:
Blacklight
Puppetry 

 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> sources are.  I'm sure if
 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> you're working with people who do this all the
 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> time you'll be fine; our
 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> problem was the light strips were placed on the
 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> stage floor just behind the
 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> footlights, and there wasn't anywhere else to
look

        Well, the Phil Collins Theatre where the Famous People Players
perform/rehearse was built for blacklight puppetry. Very neat set-up. The
house lights can switch to blacklight so the performers can take the
puppets out in to the audience. People go crazy; they absolutely love it.
This is especially effective in a number where a stripper pulls off all her
clothes until she's stripped to invisability.

 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> Biggest problem we ever had was caused by a
scene
 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> change, in a show with
 jdalhsim-AT-netspace.net.au> all music and dialogue pre-recorded (erk!). 
Flies

        Funnily enough, every night there's one scene change they can't
seem to get. At the end of the show the puppet "host" (a puppet of a
Toronto DJ) is supposed to be center stage but every time when the lights
come up and the pre-recorded dialogue starts the puppeteers are still
scrambling in the wings to get him out.

        I was suprised by your comment about the UV lights bothering your
eyes. While I haven't stared directly in to them for an extended period of
time, this doesn't seem to be an issue with FPP. Maybe it's just the way
the lights are set.

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North York B of E Summer Studio Program
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