[Usittne] Attempting to find a place which manufactures foamcolumns

[Laura Crow]

Look up Irene Corey's company that built Barney the purple dinosaur.  She
must be all over USITT.

On 9/20/07, Dirks, Arthur <ADIRKS at bridgew.edu> wrote:
>
>  I would think a vacu-formed column would also allow you to slice the back
> and overlap at the top for taper. But then there's that capital to deal with
> (and no thanks to the designer if he/she made it a Corinthian).
>
> Arthur Dirks
> Bridgewater State College
>
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> *From:* usittne-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:usittne-bounces at mit.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Michael Katz
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:07 AM
> *To:* USITT New England Section Mail List
> *Subject:* Re: [Usittne] Attempting to find a place which manufactures
> foamcolumns
>
> Patrick, 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.
> There used to be a foam fabricator in RI who like to do silly things for
> theater, but I can not
>  remember who they are,
>
> -----
> Michael Katz
> mkatz at mit.edu
> Technical Director
> MIT Theater Arts
> Rinaldi Production Center
> 34 Carleton St E33-101
> Cambridge MA 02139
> 617.253.0824 Desk
> 617.258.7149 Fax
>
> Lunacy Abounds
>
>
>  On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Pat Brooks wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> Patrick Brooks
> Student Technical Director
> Antigone
> Salem State College
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