[SML] revisiting an old story

[Phil Haney]

Thanks, Bill.

That was really nice.

-Phil

"Quini, quidi, quici" - I came, I saw, I played a little quidditch.



On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Don Taco via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

>
>   I was down at the volunteer community theater this week hanging some
> lights. I'm not the addict I used to be. I only do 5 or 6 shows a year now
> instead of 10 or 12, and I'm scattered across a larger number of venues. I
> attend fewer shows as well. So I haven't been in that house much for a
> while.
>   At the back of that auditorium are two doorways. I can recall many
> failed attempts to hang a curtain in those doorways during shows. Ushers
> holding the curtains back for most of the patrons helped, but all the
> day-to-day traffic pushing through them did damage, and the curtains
> themselves were always cast-off adapted junk. It was always shabby, clumsy,
> and troublesome.
>   One day I tackled that problem. The architecture allowed a long closet
> rod behind the doorways, (each side different, of course,) but a sliding
> tube on that rod let the new curtains move completely out of the doorways
> when appropriate, and close them off completely when appropriate. Nothing
> fancier than baling wire ties the curtain to the tube.
>   A request here on the list got us a donation of curtain scraps large
> enough for us, from Bill Sapsis and his folks, and a volunteer with a heavy
> duty machine did a pro job on the new curtains.
>   Now, 12 or 15 or possibly even more years have gone by, and that
> solution still works, and those curtains still look good. I don't know what
> the material is. It is thick, and has a hand like wool or felt. It has held
> up beautifully to all the years of handling. I'd buy it or recommend it in
> a heartbeat.
>   But I'm writing mostly to once again publicly thank Bill Sapsis for his
> generosity. Thanks, Bill!
>
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