<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Patrick,<DIV>You might try outwater supply, but I suspect that if the fluting and taper are required, you will have to build the columns, Perhaps a wood frame with a skin of bending luan and the seam up the back (easiest to do if the seam does not meet but is open) then apply strips of cove molding or route a flute into bead foam sheets and taper rip and apply that, Cover it all with foam or sculpture coat and call it a column.</DIV><DIV>There used to be a foam fabricator in RI who like to do silly things for theater, but I can not</DIV><DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; 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">617.258.7149 Fax</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; ; font-size: 12px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; ; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Lunacy Abounds</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Pat Brooks wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hello everyone my name is Pat Brooks and I'm a student Technical Director at Salem State College. We're doing a production of Antigone this fall and I need some help locating a few items for our set. The hardest thing to find at the moment is a company who can make us some foam tapered and fluted together columns. These columns have an 18 in Diameter base and taper to a 12 in diameter at the top and are approx 9' tall. All of the companies i've run across thus far can do one or the other either tapered or fluted but not both together. We used to get these from Apache before they went out of business. If anyone knows of any companies which do this kind of column creation please let me know of them or if anyone happens to have some that we may perhaps borrow that would be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks for any and all help that you may be able to give. <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Patrick Brooks<BR>Student Technical Director<BR>Antigone<BR>Salem State College<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">USITTNE mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:USITTNE@mit.edu">USITTNE@mit.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/usittne">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/usittne</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>