fake cigarettes on stage?
fake cigarettes on stage?
DDdirector
Understudy Joined: 11/15/05
#0fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 1:35pm
Anyone know a good way to make realistic cigarettes on stage to actually produce smoke? I'm direting CABARET and would like to incorporate it, but due to the intimacy of the theater/fire codes.. we can't have real cigarettes in the theater. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
-Dan
#1re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 1:42pmGo to Spencer's Gifts at your nearest mall and buy the puff cigarettes. They are fake, but produce smoke and look real. We used them for Importnace of Being Earnest.
JustABroadwaybaby2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/6/06
#2re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 1:45pm
I think there are herbal cigars/cigarettes you can buy. Not too sure though...
Good Luck!
#3re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 1:52pmHerbal cigarettes are still REAL.
WSS2
Featured Actor Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 4:21pmlol- It is hard to put on Cabaret without cigarettes....Herbal cigarettes are still real ,but just easier on actor's throats and not as addictive. Spencers does sell fake ones that my school has used in many performances.
#6re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 4:27pm
the cigarette issue is not always one of personal health or values. Local theatre groups often do not allow cigarettes onstage simply because they are a potential fire hazard.
www.thecostumer.com also sells the same fake cigarettes if you do not have a Spencers Retailer in your area.
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#7re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 4:38pmI actually wrote to Zeljko Ivanek when he was in the Pillowman and asked if he was a smoker because his character in the play smoked almost the whole time he was on stage and asked if he smoked...he said that he wasn't but that they were herbal and they were gross but not that bad.
WickedlyPerfect
Featured Actor Joined: 11/5/05
#8re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 4:54pmyeah i wondered about that too at "Barefoot in the Park"
#9re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 5:06pmlol- yup. They use them at many shows. I know at Pajama Gamea as well. (herbal ones that is) They taste like you are chewing on a piece of grass though.. :P
#10re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 7:22pmThey smell disgusting (as bad, if not worse than real cigarettes) also.
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#11re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 8:17pmI used to make my own, by basically taking an index card and rolling it up, and would put baby powder in it with a piece of tape with few wholes at both ends, they look real and they are easy and cheap.
moppetros
Swing Joined: 3/22/05
#12re: fake cigarettes on stage?
Posted: 4/30/06 at 11:00pm
I just finished directing CABARET, and I used some really great fake cigarettes from http://www.sisterfun.com. They are about 75 cents for a set of two.
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