CMU School of Drama


Monday, November 30, 2009

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts from the past week:

CMU wants to level buildings for park space

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Carnegie Mellon University wants to demolish three buildings, from 4618 to 4628 Forbes Ave., and turn the site into a park where students can display their artwork and visitors can relax on benches."

Loading in Phantom of the Opera—and the chandelier—at DPAC

indyweek: "Although the show doesn't open for another week, the huge work of loading it in began this morning. The famous decorative elements of The Phantom of the Opera—the chandelier, the underground tunnels and everything else—will fit easily onto DPAC's massive stage and will no doubt thrill audiences. But behind the opulence is a lot of grunt work that goes into laying the foundation for the complex, notoriously mobile set."

So you want to work in the movies?

Excalibur Web edition: "Breaking into the film industry isn’t as easy and glamorous as it seems.
After high school, I took a rather different route in life.
I had no plans, no real ambition and I sure as hell wasn’t planning on heading back to school again. “Lost” is a good word to describe this feeling."

How do I make a…?

Props: "It’s the question faced by the props artisan on a daily basis. Whether you work in theatre, television, or film, you will be asked to build an infinite variety of objects for an infinite variety of uses. Props are found in many other places as well, such as advertising, photography shoots, commercial displays and exhibitions. You may also wish to build props for your own personal uses, such as holiday decoration or hobbies. Whatever your reason, you are reading this because you want to know how to build anything and everything."

'Addams' tuner creeps toward B'way

Variety: "The creatives behind the $16.5 million tuner adaptation of 'The Addams Family,' playing an out-of-town tryout in Chicago ahead of a Broadway run that opens April 8, have set aside the property's familiar TV and movie incarnations to base the show on the series of single-panel Charles Addams cartoons in which the macabre clan originated."

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