[SML] swimming pool onstage

[Richard John Archer]

Anytime I’ve done pools onstage …if I couldn’t use a commercially available pool….. I had a custom liner made.  Need some fair lead time for this but usually not too bad.
 As everyone has said, weight is a problem.   If you will have Equity contract, pool must be heated. Water quaality is always a problem.  If run is short, pool not large, it might be just as easy and cheap to  empty and refill (with warm water) if you have the time and flow capacity.    No need for filtration, heat, or pool chemicals that way.

No ideas about shops.  Will ask around people I know in NYC.   
Why wouldn’t your reg shops have capability?  Time I understand but it isn’t usually rocket science here.    Liability worries?  

DickA
TD, Cornell U




> On Dec 9, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Paul Bradley via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone, I am currently working on a production that requires a swimming pool onstage.  I have never done something like this and a lot of my regular shops are currently too busy or don't have the capability.  So we are looking for a new shop in the NYC area that might be able to help out with this project.
> Does anyone have any suggestion on who to reach out to with theatrical pool experience in the area?
> 
> thank you,
> 
> Paul Bradley
> Technical Director
> New York Theatre Workshop
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