[SML] more theatre design thoughts...

[Dave Vick]

On Saturday, July 25, 2015, June Abernathy via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> The Fox in Atlanta, which has no loading dock, and trucks must back down
> an alley parallel to the stage one at a time to get to the loading door
> which is at stage level, above truck level. So, you have to build (or hope
> the last guy has left) a scaffolding “dock” that can allow you to get your
> gear off the truck, turned 90, and sent up a ramp into the very small
> theater.


You haven't been there in a long time, I think. You can put two trucks
side-by-side in the space behind the Fox stagehouse, and there's now an
elevator platform, 16' by 24', dock-height and stage-height to unload onto;
you can roll off the trucks onto the deck and straight onto the stage. The
SL columns are long gone, too.



> There are other difficult spaces - I omit the Saenger in New Orleans from
> my formal “least favorite” list, because I haven’t been in since their
> recent renovation. I’d like to think that the renovations cured the tiny
> size, weak floors, flooding basement, plethora of rats, and other issues
> there, but I’m frankly skeptical.


 They did a pretty good job with the renovation. I've taken both WarHorse
and Dirty Dancing thru the Saenger, and the venue itself, aside from being
a bit tight SR by modern roadshow standards, was the least of our troubles.



-- 
Dave Vick
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