[Usittne] Looking for a flameless torch prop

[Jrlemeritus@aol.com]

Hi Clyde- 
How are things going at CLOC's cottages and I hear the grid at Highfield is  
being ripped out to be replace within a month on our opening? Oh my!
 
Anyway torch:  I made one that worked well, though obviously not real,  but 
it was based on the way the Met Opera did theirs for the 1950's production  of 
Rigoletto. I bought a very powerful multiple [I think 6} D battery black  
metal flashlight so that the handle was like 18" long, fitted a soup can painted  
blackaround the head, covered the lens with a light frost and strips of 
yellow,  amber and red gel and then took some narrow strips of overlapping jagged 
cut  plexiglass [lucite better] between an inch or inch and a half wide and  
between 3 and 7 inches long and glued them in overlapping layers to the  inside 
of the soup can and then they glowed like they were the flames when the  
flashlight was turned on. It looked great on a dark blue stage and was actually  too 
bright on a very dark stage and I had to layer of some grey gel on top of  
the other gels to dim it a little. Took an afternoon and then of course it  
disappeared from the proproom a few years later.
 
Good luck
See you in about a month and a  half............John
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