<p dir="ltr">It would still be painted black.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, 2:35 PM Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Has anybody the actual calculations of the OVERALL cost, including labor and material, as well as gained or lost Donations of having a Sacrificial Floor, or not?<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">/s/ Richard<br>_________</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 11:10 AM Dave Vick via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">True Story: When the Giant Pulsating Wallets were specifying how the<br>
Wharton Center should/would be built, back when dinosaurs ruled the<br>
earth, people who actually, y'know, *work* onstage begged and cried<br>
for a quasi-sacrificial, easily replaceable hardboard surface over<br>
plywood substrate for the Great Hall stage, because they/we knew in<br>
our bones, even in the early 1980s, that the stuff rolling off the<br>
trucks and into the big door wasn't going to get any lighter. The<br>
opposing camp had their hearts set on a hardwood stage, because "it<br>
looks better with the symphony."<br>
<br>
Oy...<br>
<br>
We wound up with a sort-of-compromise, a surface of edge-grain western<br>
yellow pine, stained to look like something un-pine-like - maybe<br>
mahogany or teak if you squint enough - but easy enough to repair when<br>
(not "if") it splintered - and repair we did, believe me - and no one<br>
got all hot & bothered when we lagged into it. No one was truly happy<br>
with it, which I suppose is about the best compromise you can hope<br>
for...<br>
<br>
Over the years, I've toured through a ton of places with hardwood<br>
stages; the best example was taking a show into a concert hall in<br>
Springfield MA with a solid cherry deck, I kid you not. Absolutely<br>
beautiful to look at, and one of the worst load-ins I've ever endured<br>
because at the time we were lagging eight torm towers and two BIG<br>
sound towers into the deck, and you can bloody well forget about a<br>
local presenter holding still while you drill thirty-two 5/16" holes<br>
into a solid cherry stage floor, thank you very much.<br>
<br>
Get the Plyron. The accountants and the Swells in the front office<br>
might hate you, but everyone tasked with actually mounting a show or<br>
maintaining the stage floor will love you.<br>
<br>
-DV<br>
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