What is a raked stage?- Page 3
What is a raked stage?
#50what is a raked stage?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 10:52am
Doesn't the height of the front of the stage also affect what you can see? I've been to some plays were in the front row I could only see from the waist up if they moved back at all.....
I try not to sit in the front row anymore - can see facial expressions, but at the risk that you might miss some of the play. For Lestat, couldn't even tell there was a wolf on the stage at the beginning!
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#51what is a raked stage?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 12:54pmIf there is scenery that moves on from the sides, then the wings have to be raked as well.
#52what is a raked stage?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:11pm
There wolf projections in Lestat?!
Damn! Yeah, I was sitting in the front row too. It was kind of horrible when it gets to seeing things in back, plus I couldnt see the actors from ankle down unless they're at the tip.
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
#53what is a raked stage?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:37pm
For Lestat (I stood up to see), it wasn't a projection, it was a wolf! Was wondering what was there until I stood up.
Sometimes front row is great (Boy From Oz), sometimes it isn't (Lestat).
#54what is a raked stage?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:39pmThey cut the tangible wolves during Previews.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#55what is a raked stage?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 5:26pm
"They cut the tangible wolves during Previews."
Too bad they didn't cut the songs, score and book.
#56what is a raked stage?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 6:04pmOh Fosse76 you are a delight!
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