props design
| Properties Designer/Manager | Department of Theatre Arts | |
| Website title: | Theatre.uoregon.edu |
| URL: | https://theatre.uoregon.edu/properties-designermanager/ |
role: props design
RESPONSIBILITIES: Depending on the production’s needs, the Props Designer/Manager will pull from storage, purchase, or make the props for the production. A prop list will be drawn up. It may start with a list in a published script, but the Designer should still read the script and make up their own. This list will be given to the stage manager and will probably change during the process. The people who are doing the props will have to communicate will be made through to the Stage Manager.
Skills needed to work in props
- the ability to help imagine a character based on what they own
- leadership, management and motivational skills
- ability to cope with pressure
- solid financial skills
- knowledge of health and safety legislation and procedure
- physical strength and stamina
- skills in crafting and DIY, including sewing, ironing, plumbing, carpet fitting, upholstery, and taking accurate measurements
- good IT skills
- and eye for interiors and spatial awareness
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson has done Lion King for set design. Richard has been doing set designs for nearly over 60 Broadway shows. The Old Globe, The Alley Theatre, and Seattle Rep and other theatre, he has three Drama Desk Awards (Into the Woods, Veronica’s Room, Over Here!), three Tony nominations (The Front Page, Into the Woods, 42nd Street).
Bunny Christie
Bunny Christie has done set design for the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Bunny Christie’s set design takes credit for the play’s success massively. The set design that she does has got many awards for her work in the west end shows using her set design. she has recently working on The Wild Duck at the Almeida. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, she has won an Olivier Award, is now at the Piccadilly Theatre.
She was awarded first class honours where she studied at Central St Martins. She mainly works in London. her designed that she as done goes all over the UK, Europe and the US. Has a long relationship with national Theatre for designing in all of their theatre spaces. Her work at the NT set. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time at The National Theatre, transferred to the West End and UK Tour. She won third Olivier Award and a Tony Award dor designing for The Curious Incident has been touring Internationally and visiting british schools, giving student the experience of their live also supporting teaching drama in schools. .
Awards
Oliver Nominations 2018 Best Set Design -Ink
Evening Standard Award 2017 Best Design -Red Barn -NT, Ink -Almeida, Heisenberg -Whyndhams Theatre
Tony Award 2015 Best Set Design-Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Olivier Nomination 2015 Best Set Design- Made in Dagenham
Olivier Award 2013 Best Set Design – Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Evening Standard Nomination 2012 Best Design – Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime.
Olivier Award 2011 Best Set Design – The White Guard
Critics Circle Award Best Design 2011 – The White Guard
Olivier Award 2003 Best Set Design – Streetcar Named Desire
Olivier Nomination 2000 Set Design – Baby Doll
Evening Standard Award 2000 Best Design – Baby Doll
Olivier Nomination 1999 Costume Design – As You Like It
Bunny Christie, set designer
Born: St Andrews, 1962
High point: “Winning an Evening Standard award for the show Baby Doll in 2001. It was a fun night.”
Low point: “Writing my will in a theatre one day while working on a show. I was feeling pretty desperate.”
Set Designs
These are the set designs that she has done in her life:
. Blurred Line
. Company
. Heienberg
. Ink
. People Places and Things
. The curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time
. The Red Barn
. Husbands and Sons
. If You Kiss Me Kiss Me
. Julius Caesar
. Henry IV
. Made in Dagenham
. Emil and Detectives
. Women of Troy
. The Comedy of Errors
. Medea
. The White Guard
. The Cherry Orchard
. Greenland
. Men Should Weep
. Our Class Philistines
. The Postman Always Rings Twice
. After Miss Julie
. Moonlight
This encourages me to think what I want to do as the background in fame an what props I want to use in fame.
Douglas W. Schmidt
Douglas W. Schmidt has done set design for Fame.
Douglas W. Schmidt Awards and Nominations
(winners are in red)
Drama Desk Awards- 2017- Outstanding Set Design for a play (in the front)
outer Critics Circle Awards-2017- Outstanding Set design (Play or Musical) (In the front)
Tony Awards – 2002 – Best Scenic Design (42th street)
Tony Awards – 2001 – Best Scenic Design (42th street)
Drama Desk Awards – 1980 – Outstanding Set Design (sidewalkin)
The Hewes Awards – 1977 – Scenic Design 
Agamemnon
Drama Desk Awards – 1974 – Outstanding Set Designer Over Here!
Drama Desk Awards – 1974 – Outstanding Set Designer Veronica’s Room
The Hewes Awards – 1973 – Scenic Design Enemies
He was born on 4th October 1942. His age is 76. was in born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
What he has done.
He has work on:
. All My Sons-2019-Broadway- Scenic Designer
. 42nd Street-2017-West End-Set Designer
. The Gershwins’ An American In Paris-2008-Houston-Scenic Designer
. Getting Away With Murder-1996-Broadway-Scenic Designer
. The School for Scandal-1995-Broadway-Scenic Designer
Fame The Musical
synopsis
Fame the musical has the high class and low class of New York City’s final class with High school for the Performing Arts from their first year in 1980 and their graduation is in 1984. Fame tells a story so many of the students. we see the student struggle with ambition, fame, and self-confidence such as carmen, an serious actor is nick. There’s an overweight girl called Mabel. Tyrone is a talented dancer who struggles with dyslexia. It tells the story of several of the students, depicting their struggles, triumphs and relationships with sincerity and dramatic effect. The show does not shy away from complex issues, such as racial prejudice, drug abuse, and sexual abuse. Fame the Musical is a worldwide success that continues to be performed by growing generations of young performers. It provides a unique opportunity to display a diverse range of talents on the one stage, including dancing, singing, acting, rapping and musicianship.
songs
Act one
Pray I Make P.A. – Ensemble
*Hard Work – Ensemble
I Want to Make Magic – Nick
*Can’t Keep It Down – Joe, Students
*Tyrone’s Rap – Tyrone
*There She Goes! /Fame – Carmen, Students
Let’s Play a Love Scene -Serena
Bring on Tomorrow – Schlomo, Carmen
Teacher’s Argument – Miss Bell, Miss Sherman Hard Work [reprise] – Ensemble
Act Two
*I Want to Make Magic / There She Goes (Reprise) – Nick and Company
Mabel’s Prayer – Mabel, Students
Think of Meryl Streep – Serena
*Dancin’ on the Sidewalk – Tyrone, Students
These Are My Children – Miss Sherman
In L.A. – Carmen
Let’s Play a Love Scene (Reprise) – Nick and Serena
Bring on Tomorrow (Reprise) – Schlomo, Students
*Finale: Hard Work/Fame (Reprise) – Company
context of fame
Based on how successful the 1980 film produce into Fame the Musical in Miami, Florida in 1988. The film was developed by the film’s producer David De Silva. The musical a darker, grittier storyline than the movie ends with an overdose of the one of the main characters, Carmen Diaz. The musical has been produced or translated all over the world in various different countries, including Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Thailand and other countries.
History of fame
FAME the musical was on the 1980 film. The film has achieved the title song winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 1980 Oscars Ceremony. The film was set at New York High School of Performing Arts. Plot is divided into separate sections, showing auditions to the school and The student’s progression from the auditions through to seniors. Many characters in the film has a lot of are alike to those in the musical, as the film covers similar topics such as bullying, sexuality, drugs and friendship.
Context of 1980’s
In United States in the late 1970s were a troubled time for many many people. After a change in attitude to movements in the 1960s and early 1970s, after things like the watergate scandal, the Vietnam War, the Middle East and crisis at home has knocked Americans in there people and government.
At the end of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, the 1960s had uncertainty in higher crimes and foreign policy. Most Americans accepted a new way in social, economic and political in the 1980s of president Ronald Reagan.
The decade also saw a rise of the younger people being paid well. Also the likes of MTV launching many music artists.
The 1980s: Rise of the New Right
The movement of the New Right saw never done growth in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It saw many Americans, like evangelical christians, anti- tax crusaders, small markets having more power in free market.
At the beginning the 1980s the Cold War saw no signs of stopping and the Americans and Soviet Union agreeing on anything. In 1982 there were big support of the freeze in New York City Park. This was the biggest seen in American history.
The rise in New Right the so called Sunbelt of regions in Southeast, Southwest and California saw a rise in people after world war II and the 1970s. The sunbelts moved from older cities because of problems they were facing of likes of overcrowding, pollution and crime. Also because they were tired of higher taxes and a bad economy. They were also tried of government poking their nose in. Many people changed their attitude towards the liberal policies and started liking the Democratic party policies.
The 1980s: The Reagan Revolution and Reaganomics
During and after the 1980 presidential liberals came to be known as “Reagan Democrats.” They provided millions of votes for the Republican candidate. Reagan won 51 percent of the vote over Jimmy Carter and carried all but five states and the District of Columbia. Once a Hollywood actor, his good style and reassuring attitude won many Americans. Reagan was nicknamed “the Gipper” for his 1940 film role as a Notre Dame football player named George Gipp.
During the Cold War other Americans leaders, President Reagan owns everything and threatened freedom everywhere. His administration was to provide financial and military aid to governments and insurgencies around the world. the policy applied including Grenada, El Salvador and Nicaragua was known as the Reagan Doctrine.
In November 1986, it came to light that the White House had been selling arms to Iran in secret to win the freedom of US hostages in Lebanon and diverted money from the sales to Nicaraguan rebels known as the Contras.
The Iran-Contra affair, resulted in the convictions that were later reversed of Reagan’s national security adviser John Poindexter, and Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a member of the National Security Council.
The 1980s: Reaganomics
The 1980s: Popular Culture
The 1980s for many people saw a decade of the “yuppie” a well paying job and expensive taste. Some people thought that yuppies self-centred but yuppies more concerned with making money and buying goods than their parents.
This show that yuppies were rich and in Fame theres some people think they are popular then some people are not rich and popular.
At the movie theater, the 1980s was the age of the blockbuster. Movies like “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Return of the Jedi,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Beverly Hills Cop” appealed to moviegoers of all ages and made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. The 1980s was also the heyday of the teen movie.
At home, people watched family sitcoms like “The Cosby Show”and “Roseanne”. They also rented movies to watch on their new VCRs. By the end of the 1980s, 60 percent of American television owners got cable service–and the most revolutionary cable network of all was MTV, which made its debut on August 1, 1981. The music videos the network played made megastars out of artists like Michael Jackson whose elaborate “Thriller” video helped sell 600,000 albums in the five days after its first broadcast. MTV also influenced fashion: People across the country did their best to copy the hairstyles and fashions they saw in music videos. In this way, artists like Madonna became fashion icons.
Micheal Jackson has got mentioned in the play with tyrone’s rap. so this relates to fame and what Micheal Jackson has done in his life and inspires people and inspires the musical the Fame.
As the decade wore on, MTV also became a forum for those who went against the grain or were left out of the yuppie ideal. Rap artists such as Public Enemy, heavy metal acts such as Metallica and Guns N’ Roses also became popular with young people, especially with young men.
AIDs and HIV
An outbreak of AIDS and HIVS the across United States and the rest of the world in the 1980s and early 1990s. It came around in earlier decades. More than 70 million people have been affected to HIV and about 35 million have died from AIDS.
What is HIV?
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks the immune system. This virus can be transferred body fluids such as blood, vaginal fluids, anal fluids and breast milk. HIV is most often caused be having unprotected sex, sharing needles for drug and through birth. HIV can eventually turn into most severe conditions. A person with AIDS is to have life-threatening infection such as pneumonia. The isn’t no cure for HIV and AIDs but with a person with HIV who receives treatment early can live long with someone without the virus.
So in Fame this would affect people with HIV and AIDS because there kissing in fame fame and sexual things in the musical and that how the AIDS and HIV gets spread to each other.
Where Did AIDS Come From?
The AIDS Epidemic Arises
HIV arrived in the United States to around 1970s but didn’t come to public attention until the early 1980s. In 1981 Centers for Disease control (CDC) homosexual men becoming infected with Pneumocytis pneumonia is caused by normally harmless fungus. This type of Pneumonia the almost affects people with poorly immune systems.
Immune system disorder had affected 335 people and killing 136 of them because the disease was found in homosexual men called it gay related immune or GRID.
The CDC discovered all major routes of the disease’s transmission as well as that female partners of AIDS-positive men could be infected. In 1983, the public considered AIDS a gay disease.
In September 1982 the CDC term AIDS to describe the disease for the first time. By the end of the year AIDS cases were in a number of European countries.
The HIV Test Arrives
Researchers have finally found a cause of AIDS and the HIV virus in 1984. the food and Drug Administration (FDA) fo the first commercials blood test for HIV in 1985.
Tests can detect HIV which work by detecting HIV antibodies tests can be done on blood and urine through the blood tests detect HIV sooner after due to higher levels of antibodies.
In 1985 Rock Hudson became the first high-profile from AIDS. In 2015 the FDA for gay men to donate blood but before they band gay men to give blood. By the end of 1985, there were more than 20,000 reported cases of AIDS.
AZT is Developed
In 1987 antiretroviral medication for HIV, azidothymidine (AZT), became available other medications for HIV are available. What’s known as antiretroviral therapy (ART) or highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART).
Preventing the virus from multiplying, giving the immune system a chance to recover and fight off infections and HIV-related cancers. The therapy also helps reduce the risk of HIV transmission, including between an infected mother and her unborn child.
The World Health Organisation in 1988, declared December 1st to be World AIDS Day. By the end of the decade, there were at least 100,000 reported cases of AIDS in the United States and WHO estimated 400,000 AIDS cases worldwide.
HIV/AIDS in the 1990s and 2000s
In 1991 the red ribbon became an international symbol of AIDS awareness.
In 1991 Magic Johnson announced he had HIV, helping to further bring awareness to the issue and dispel the stereotype of it being a gay disease. Soon after, Freddie Mercury announced he had AIDS and died a day later.
In 1994, the FDA approved the first oral (and non-blood) HIV tests and two years later, it approved the first home testing kit and the first urine test.
AIDS-related deaths and hospitalizations in developed countries began to decline sharply in 1995 thanks to new medications and the introduction of HAART. Still, by 1999, AIDS was the fourth biggest cause of death in the world and the leading cause of death in Africa.
HIV Treatment Progresses
Began selling discounted copies of patented HIV drugs to developing countries. leading to several major slashing prices on their HIV drugs.
In 2009 President Barack Obama lifted a 1987 U.S. ban that prevented HIV-positive people from entering the country. At the end of 2015 36.7 million people were living with HIV and AIDS and 1.1 million people died from AIDS that year.
Drugs of Abuse
Most commonly abused substances can be grouped into a few broad categories such as:
- Central nervous system stimulants (e.g. cocaine, crack, meth, ecstasy).
- Depressants (e.g. alcohol, marijuana).
- Various drug classes such as amphetamine stimulants (meth, Adderall, Vyvanse).
- Dissociative anesthetics (ketamine), sedative-hypnotics (e.g. Ambien), benzodiazepines (e.g. Ativan, Valium and Xanax), opiates (e.g. heroin) and opioid painkillers (hydrocodone, oxycodone, Percocet, Vicodin).
Commonly abused drugs obtained on the street or illegal market and those intended for use as prescription medication. Use of all of the following substances can result in a similar pattern of dependency or addiction. substance abuse needs treatment because efforts continue to make strides in helping the millions of Americans struggling with them.
Tragic Consequences of Drug Abuse
Most drugs are illegal or written by prescription with the exception of alcohol some drugs are dangerous. Illegal to drive with under substances of drugs or purchasing illegal drugs or diverting prescriptions could lead you into prison.
- It may come impossible for an addict to hold a job they could lose relationships, their income and their marriages.
- Might do criminal crime such as robbery, prostitution and drug dealing. could gain or maintain access to their drugs.
- Could kill or hurt other people through drink driving or having drugs in their systems with driving and may get and pass to other infectious diseases as HIV and AIDS.
May end up causing serious harm or killing themselves through suicide, overdose, or drug-related. Has tragic memories which starts a drug does so with the intention of experiencing any of these awful things.
What is Drug Addiction?
Drug addiction can be defined as a chronic, relapsing illness in which an individual develops a severe physical and psychological dependence on drugs, such that the compulsion to use drugs is overpowering, despite the knowledge of detrimental consequences.
The Process of Addiction
Addiction to drugs doesn’t happen overnight. People who develop substance have been abuse so they look at alcohol, marijuana, stimulants, prescription painkillers as something to take it out on. Desensitized to them over a period of time. They may enjoy the use of drugs in a recreational sort of way. For instance:
They may have a beer or some wine each evening as a way of relieving the stresses of a busy workday.
They may smoke marijuana on an occasional basis as a way to socialise with friends or have an appetite for food, music, or sex.
Still another person may start using cocaine as a way of staying up late at night to study for exams.
In Fame, people do do drugs and people do die for example Carmen has to take drugs but she has an over dose on her drugs and Joe takes marijuana.
Audition preparation
What I did for my audition I read my lines over and over again and wrote my lines out and with the song i kept on listening to it on youtube.
The audition that we did on 27th March 2019 from fame.
Think of Meryl Streep from Serena scene.
What I need to improve on in my audition is didn’t go well as I wanted it to go also the accent wasn’t there either it needed to be more American but I did have a little bit sounded American. On the other hand my acting wasn’t that great it could of been more dramatic and didn’t have that much confident either. What went well I was louder enough but could of been louder and needed to learn my lines.
This is the scene and song for Serena.
What I need to improve on in my audition is didn’t go well as I wanted it to go I had no accent that much as I wanted because I kept dropping the accent. I needed to learn the scene because I didn’t read over the scene and plus the song went terrible as well because my voice kept on cracking because I was nervous as well and plus I knew the words but my mind went blank. I think I just needed to to practice the song much more than what I did.
character biography
- who am I? my character name is Amy an d she is very shy also finds things funny the scene can’t keep it down. My parents are very caring even i you have something wrong. The background to me I had a peaceful life and very kind life and hasn’t been very stressful but when we had to do my GCSE. My grandparents are very old but they do come and see me and spend time with me. I’ve got 1 sister. The house I have been living at is very big and its 5 bedrooms house. My family are average but not rich.
I am very caring but I sometimes I switch off and don’t listen until its something important I need to do. My likes are acting and being in my acting classes. I dislike being in music classes and dancing classes but I like doing dancing on the sidewalk which is dancing. The games I like playing with my family is snakes and ladders or cards. My friends are very good to and they are there if I need help or support. In my spare time I like doing is finding out what is happening in the world by looking in magazines or newspaper.
2. where am I? I am at New York Brit school. Which I am very impressed that I have got into there but I do need to work harder than not working hard. I was nervous starting and meeting new people. I’m not looking for a relationship while being here.
3. When is it? I love it when its a hot day but I hope I get to graduate from the school and be very excited to graduate form here. In 1980 to 1984 so in 1984 we graduate but I’m very excited and overwhelmed to be here as well. The colder months I hate becuase you have to wear so many layers of clothing.
4. Where have I just come from? I came from High school and a very caring home which I like I hope I have friends that are caring and helpful like my parents are like and what they are like my parents helping me on what I am meant to be doing. My mood is happy.
5. What do I want? I need to graduate so I can be an actor when I leave from the New York Brit school I can go for auditions to be an actor in 1984 and hopefully I become an actor and don’t get rejected because I am inspired to be an actor.
6.Why do I want it? I been watching programs that have acting it making me want it even more so the programs is making me to be inspired to be an actor but I do compare myself to them to see if I would get an actor in Hollywood.
7. Why do I want it now? The reason why I want to be a TV actor because I’m really good and positive about how I feel and I’m not shy so that’s why I want it now. I would be able to afford my house and lifting on my own and I could afford my food and my bills. I really do like acting and I would love to be famous. When I graduate at the end of the 4 years.
8. What will Happen if I don’t get it now? If I don’t get it now then I will still b e very motivate to get what I want over the four years but i will have to work hark for the four years to get where I want to be in my life and I will fight where I want to be and whatg I want to be in my future but I will not give up and even when something gets in my way i will still fight until I am a TV actor.
9. How will I get what I want by doing what? I will get here by doing actions while others peoples singing and believing what that are singing or saying in acting and by believing what they are saying is by our body language and how we stand. I will get there by analyzing the script with what actions I’m going to with what they are saying to make it have more energy from me. The techniques is showing the emotions threw the body language and using facial expressions.
10. What must I overcome? I need to overcome my fears ad not to be scared or shy. Also not to stand there looking bored to be engaged in the scene ad to be in character as Amy.
Deanna Blake FMP 