Adventures in Prop-Making: Cake and Cake Topper for The Wedding Singer

Adventures in Prop-Making: Cake and Cake Topper for The Wedding Singer

Sometimes you'll find that when working on a production, the script will call for something impractical or difficult to have as "real" onstage. Case in point in The Wedding Singer (we open in less than a week -- EEK!) -- obviously a show with "wedding" in the title will at some point require a cake! For …

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Funny/Strange/Scary Props Stories

I love hearing "war stories" of things that go wrong during shows. In theatre, Murphy's law is always in effect -- if something can get broken, go missing, or otherwise just go entirely wrong, it will! Read along to find out some funny, strange, and just plain dangerous stories with props that have happened in …

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Theatre Etiquette: Concerning Props

Source "Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it." ~ Harold Ramis Last week I wrote about theatre etiquette concerning costumes.  This week, we're moving on to props! Let's get the definitions out of the way, shall we?  A theatrical property, commonly referred …

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