Revolving Stages - Help!

[NosferatuRianu]

Revolving Stages - Help!#1

Posted: 6/15/07 at 3:11pm

Hey there everybody, this is Erin Lightning from Riverview, Florida, and right now my theatre's doing a production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. Our problem, however, is that we need to find a way to build a revolving stage for the performance - fast! So if anyone's ever worked on one before or has any ideas or information about where we can go (Besides the UK's Revolving Stage Company) to learn about them, that would be a fantastic help!

Thanks!

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[SarahBeth]

re: Revolving Stages - Help!#2

Posted: 6/15/07 at 3:33pm

I did a show at a theater where we did not have a revolving stage but what we did was we built this elaborate set where people on the crew would be sitting underneath and would push it so the entire structure would revolve. They were lovingly dubbed the Hampsters and gerbils. The set had certain levels where another scene could be set while another is going on and when certain pieces revolved the new scene would be revealed. It worked out really well and looked beautiful.

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[bwaylvsong]

re: Revolving Stages - Help!#2

Posted: 6/15/07 at 3:42pm

Yeah, maybe you can build a turntable a few feet above the stage, and have crew members (underneath, concealed by a black curtain) rotate it by hand.