[SML] Cleaning the audience space

[Jacob Blumberg]

Nice story, but blowers don’t suck they blow. Had a similar thing happen to
me we had designed a set that was a 20 somethings apartment and spent weeks
getting just the right trash and takeout containers to have scattered about
we get in 3 hours before the show to find maintance had trashed it. Let’s
just say pizza was ordered.



On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 16:37 Paul Guncheon via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Don't use blowers, they suck... ummm wait. There is a story coming. I'll
> make it short though.
>
> I designed and built a show in a smallish theater that was set in a 3/4
> view or thrust position, i.e. seating on three sides of the stage.  The set
> consisted of about fifty to seventy-five tree trunks, a bunch of bushes,
> and assorted foliage, grass, and stones. We had sculpted a forest floor
> with a lot of flat-ish rocks sculpted out of Homesote and Canec (like
> Homesote but softer and made with sugar cane stalks) by the use of
> grinders, sanders, and what all. This, as one might imagine, made a LOT of
> dust. Quite a bit of debris went into the seating.
>
> The night before the first preview the cleaning crew came in and for some
> reason, decided to use leaf blowers as part of their procedure to clean the
> seating. They had never done this before. When we came in the next morning
> to put stuff away as the set was finished, we discovered that the entire
> set was covered in dust and dirt. Everything was brownish grey.
>
> But the seating was clean.
>
> Grrr.
>
> We spent the next many hours patiently vacuuming up the dust (Do you have
> any idea how long it takes to vacuum a bush?) and replacing the dirt where
> needed. The cleaning crew was "cautioned" by management (at the kind and
> gentle urging of the TD, my partner in building the set) to never use
> blowers again.
>
> Of course, this didn't prevent them from, many months later, cleaning up
> the artfully placed "litter" from a punk nightclub set. We proceeded to
> replace and hot glue every piece of trash back onto the set.
>
> We live, we learn.
>
> Laters,
>
> Paul 1
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> For list information see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
> Stagecraft mailing list
> Stagecraft at theatrical.net
> http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://theatrical.net/pipermail/stagecraft_theatrical.net/attachments/20180323/39215c68/attachment.html>