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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Way back in Florida we did "Rain",
which it did about 75% of the show. Built a 2-story tin-roofed
hotel set w/ drilled pipe for water dispersal. No mics on
actors. No problem for the audience to hear, but we were trained
to project. Major issue was getting costumes esp shoes, damp
because after a fall of 12', water splashes ALL over the
backstage. No matter how much you put plastic sheets. We
guttered the runoff immediately outside, we did not re-circulate.
Being Florida we were used to the damp, but afterward never seemed
to be any particular problems. Ran 16 perf over 4 weeks and we
ran large fans on the dark days.<br>
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Chip 1<br>
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On 10/2/2015 2:25 AM, Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It seems like a true Risk Assessment is required
for moisture in carpets, drapes, seat cushions, seat backs, and
every other porous element in the theater; also look for
condensation on lenses and lamps.
<div>/s/ Richard</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Ben
Thoron SML via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a
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upcoming project is said to "require" rain all night
onstage. I<br>
put it in quotes because, there's obviously no real harm in
just<br>
pretending its raining. But, the current thinking is that
rain is an<br>
essential part of the story telling.<br>
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So- what I think happens when in rains inside a theatre for
2-3 hours<br>
a night, for seven weeks is that we we run the risk of
becoming a 650<br>
seat terrarium...<br>
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Has any body had experience on a project where it rained,
really<br>
rained for the whole show?<br>
Could you hear the actors, did the audience have to get up
and pee,<br>
did concessions run out of hot cocoa? Was there mold
EVERYWHERE?<br>
<br>
I've done shows with some rain, 5 minutes or so, dumped
100s of<br>
gallons of water across the stage, made a pond (with a
boat), and had<br>
a swimming pool on stage. Clearly, I'm not afraid of water,
per<br>
se...just getting wet and not being able to dry out.<br>
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