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Show One tieover used was the "brown" theme. In the first scene, the hut was brown, in the second, the house was brown and finally Passionella married a man named Mr. Brown after a short escapade on a brown couch. An almost unbelievable amount of time and effort go into building and painting scenery, setting lights, and doing all of the before show things that need to be done. During the show run, "The Apple Tree" used 16 stage men as well as a stage manager. Wagons had to be pushed, scenery lowered in from fly space and lights controlled. There were over 100 light change cues used to modify mood, change time of day, and create time transitions. The audience never realized how large the pieces of scenery on stage were. The tree silhouette in the background was 18 by 20 feet and the house was 24 feet wide, as large as many small city houses. The choreographer, Gordon Paxton also spent hours in working in balanced and unified relationship and movement of bodies during the music numbers. Throughout, this group of people worked in a close interrelationship of unity. Above: Proper timing is essential to good musical scoring. Top Right: The ballyhoo preceding "The Apple Tree's" "The Lady or the Tiger" sequence. Extreme Right: Which shall it be, the lady... or the tiger? Above Right: The producer causes the plot to flourish in "Adam and Eve." Far Right: Eve bites it. Right: Duane Hill's Adam delivers a thoughful soliloquy. 84 s>4 |