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| Costumes | |
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| Collaborating in Metal Costume Construction | |
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| Building Authentic Elizabethan Ruffs | |
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| A Milliner's Approach to Maskmaking: Part I | |
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| A Milliner's Approach to Maskmaking: Part II | |
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| Collapsible Change Booths | |
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| Lighting | |
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| Labeling and Storing Electrical Cable | |
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| Extending the Life of Strip-Light Color Media | |
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| Inexpensive MR16 Lamp Holders | |
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| Lighting Effects | |
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| A Schmitt-Trigger Practical Switch | |
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| Moving Leaves by the Power of Spring | |
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| A Ground-Fog Generating System | |
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| A Phase-Changing Moon Box | |
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| The World's Brightest Glowing Thing | |
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| Disappearing Footlights | |
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| Modifying Kodak's Fun-Flash for Theatrical Effects | |
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| Simultaneous Realtime Control of Sound and Light with MIDI | |
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| A Sure-Shot Fireball Effect | |
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| A Motorized, Mirrored Rain Effect | |
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| Theatrically Safe Outdoor Bonfires | |
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| A Free-Falling Ball of Light | |
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| Painting | |
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| Using Embossed Wallpaper for Low Relief | |
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| Dyeing Marble Patterns into Fabric | |
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| A Durable, Rough Texture Coating for Scenery and Props | |
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| Shop-Made Naugahyde | |
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| Simple and Inexpensive Stained Glass | |
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| Creating an Antique Mirror Effect | |
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| Props | |
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| More Stage Blood | |
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| Low-Tech Ghost Effects: Moving Furniture | |
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| Latchless Rotating Shelving | |
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| Rat Trap Stage Trick | |
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| A Flashing Cane for Casting Spells | |
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| Building Distorting Mirrors | |
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| Pneumatic Debris Cannons | |
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| A Recycled-Bike Rig for a "Zinging" Puppet | |
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| A Simple Approach to Complicated Theatrical Sculpture | |
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| Ornate Chandeliers Made Simple | |
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| Maskmaking 101 | |
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| Creating a Glass-Block Effect | |
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| The Cheap, Easy, and Effective Snow Machine | |
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| Rigging Hardware | |
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| A Mini-Pinrail for Counterweight Rails | |
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| Shop-Built Scenery Bumpers & Rollers | |
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| A Quick Release for Drops | |
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| A Pneumatically Tripped Circular Curtain | |
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| A Modular Aluminum Drop Rig | |
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| A Quiet Glide and Unistrut Traveler System | |
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| Pneumatic Drop Boxes | |
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| A Quick-Load Floor Pulley Design | |
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| Rigging Techniques | |
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| A Simple Approach to Stretching Drops | |
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| Panel-Tipping Rig | |
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| Quiet Heavy-Duty Traveler Track | |
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| Self-Trimming Flown Units | |
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| A Flying Rig for Low-Ceiling Theaters | |
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| Adjustable Scenery Picks of Unistrut | |
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| An Irising Portal | |
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| Safety | |
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| A Stock Safety Rail System | |
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| CO[subscript 2] Fire Suppression System for Theatrical Fire Effects | |
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| Scenery | |
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| Lightweight Acting Cubes | |
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| Step Modules for Stock 6:12 or 8:10 Stairs | |
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| Flexi-Pitch Escape Stairs | |
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| A No-Weld Spiral Staircase | |
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| Pinless (and Painless) Pipe Pockets | |
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| Spot-Welding Scrim with Sobo | |
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| Handrail Armatures for a Grand Staircase | |
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| Tube Steel Perimeter Framing for Flats | |
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| Triscuit Cart | |
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| A Pre-Cambered Overhanging Ceiling | |
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| Whalers -- Low-Profile Stiffeners for Steel-Framed Flats | |
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| A Space-Saving Rain Wall | |
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| Fabric Hinges for Space Frame Flats | |
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| PVC Framing for Non-Weight-Bearing Scenery | |
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| A Modified Parallel Platform Unit for Audience Risers | |
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| Scenery Decks | |
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| Bondo Floor Repairs | |
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| The Triscuit-Studwall Deck System | |
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| Using Medium-Density Fiberboard as a Deck Lid | |
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| The Steel-Framed Texas Triscuit | |
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| A Frameless Turntable | |
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| Sand on Stage: Minimum Weight, Maximum Effect | |
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| Scenery Electronics | |
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| A Miniature Chase Controller | |
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| A Low-Voltage Cue-Light System | |
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| Focusable Cue Lights | |
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| Scenery Hardware | |
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| A Second Drive for Elevator Door Movement | |
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| A Telescoping Fire Pole | |
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| A Self-Paging Cable Tray | |
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| Nylon Rollers Revisited | |
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| A Pipe and Ball-Bearing Pivot | |
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| Weld-on Holes | |
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| A Wheel-less Revolve | |
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| A Tensioning Sheave for a Deck Winch System | |
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| A Spectacular Electrified Fence | |
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| Scenery Mechanics | |
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| A Pneumatic Floor Lock System | |
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| Tap-Water Hydraulic Power | |
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| A System for Rotating Linked Periaktoi | |
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| A Telescope-Stabilized Lift Rig | |
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| A Spring-Driven Revolve | |
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| Single-Orientation Curved Tracking | |
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| Rotating Doors | |
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| A Pneumatic Tab Turner | |
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| Roller Chain Turntable Drives | |
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| A Hand-Driven Endless-Loop Turntable Drive | |
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| A Plausible, Practical Raft | |
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| Flipping Trap Unit | |
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| A Control Rig for a Down-Opening Trapdoor | |
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| Mini Paint Roller Piston | |
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| Scenery Tools | |
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| A Swivel Caster Bolt-Hole Jig | |
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| A Shop-Built Adjustable Router Fence | |
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| A Tool for Mass-Producing Homasote Brickface | |
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| A Hot-Wire Bow for Cutting Blue Foam | |
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| A Shop-Built Circle Guide for Torch-Cutting | |
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| Scene Shop Tuffets | |
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| Improved Scene Shop Tuffets | |
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| A 4-Sided Steel-Marking Gauge | |
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| A Jig for Cutting Ellipses | |
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| Sound | |
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| How to Use Your Headset as a Page Mic | |
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| Amplified-to-Line Signal Converter | |
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| Two Head Attachment Methods for Wireless Microphones | |
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| A Device to Determine Sound System Polarity | |
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| Making a Prop Tape Player Cueable | |
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| A Bench-Built XLR Cable Tester | |
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| Inexpensive Digital Noise Reduction | |
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| Two-Scene Sound Control | |
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| Recreating an Acoustic Space with Discrete-6 Recording | |
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