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CANDIDE - SANTA FE OPERA 2018

Set for Candide, designed by Chantal Thomas.

Scenic Team

Scenic Charge: Mark Edlund

Staff Scenic Artists: Laura Greenfield, Alex Connor, Kristin Meyer, Whitney Glover

Journeyman Scenic: David Mortellito

Apprentice Scenics: Jacob Caire, Nicole McManis, myself (Delia Revard - I was also the touchup apprentice)

Gluing Muslin

Ladders and stamina were essential to effectively glue this giant swath of muslin on the paper "wave" for Candide.

Gluing Muslin

And clamps. The key especially was not to make any glue-burns as it was just being painted white like paper.

Gluing the other side

COMPLETE!

Candide Large Map

Vinyl prints glued onto fiberglass sheets for a papery look were a major feature of this show - some pages were glued on muslin, others were glued on vinyl prints such as this.

Sealing a vinyl print covered fiberglass "page"

Sealing/toning "chalkboard walls"

More vinyl

Vinyl pasted to a wooden flat here, door cut at slant to allow for raked stage.

Seaming pages

Lots of time was taken to cover the seams in the stacks of pages - main materials used were paper clay, caulk, and sometimes epoxy sculpting clay. As touch up, I was responsible each performance to tape a seam down the middle of the set as it came apart each night. This meant having long strips of gaff tape pre-painted to match the stage, the color of which consistently changed each night due to it being a white ground cloth in an outdoor desert theatre!

A good final shot of most of the set pieces.

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CANDIDE - SANTA FE OPERA 2018

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