The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater | 
|  | | | Title: | The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater | | Author: | John Kaluta | | Publisher: | Allworth Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 November, 2003 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1581153155 / 9781581153156 | | List Price: | $19.95 | | You Save: | $6.38 | | Amazon Price: | $13.57 | |
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Here is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost, low-tech approaches to painting scenery, building sets, hanging lights, setting cues, and operating sound. They'll also find crucial guidance for generating publicity, preparing tickets, technical rehearsals, and more.
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Customer Reviews:
• Wish I Could Rate Higher 28 November, 2008
As a student that does stage crew, this book is worth its weight in platinum. It is full of everything you need to get up and running for any theatrical event; whether amateur, school, or professional, this book will fulfill the needs of it all.
With tips ranging from carpentry to lighting and sound, and even how to manage the stage crew themselves, you really cannot go wrong buying this book, especially if you are a sponsor or director.
After hearing about this book, many crew members also bought this book and they also say the same things I do.
Heck, my stage crew sponsor LOVES this book. Well, after all, he should, if you catch my drift.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1S0IVGTXRLDG3
• Kaluta Shows How To Pull Off A Fine Production 18 May, 2004
John Kaluta's The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater considers budgets and the means for creating professional-quality stage productions on a limited set of resources. Kaluta shows how to pull off a fine production in less than forty days on almost any budget, and covers everything from organizing and storing backstaeg supplies, to building sets, to testing lighting, to operating sound equipment. This technical guide is confidently recommended for any involved in theatre at the high school, college or community levels.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A14OJS0VWMOSWO
• Educators, Theatrics And Stagecraft Students 18 April, 2005
Kaluta's, The Perfect Stage Crew, is far after and forever perfect. Anyone pursuing the love of arts, communications and particularly those working with excited and courageous young people in career and technical education nation-wide, can forget worrying and save their energy for better spent passion.
The Perfect...is succinctly detailed, nuance attentive, elegant yet exuberant and will answer before you know the question. National standards in this field clearly define all that must be known and done to achieve excellence. Kaluta far exceeds intelligent discourse.
The Perfect Stage Crew... is back pocket and top shelf and without a doubt, biblical in importance. One is a must but others to spare... for your fondest colleagues, will get all of you there. Kaluta has packed twenty-five years of retries into one anatomically correct and beautiful rocket that will hurl you into a perfect and proud production.
He's been there and done that but, instead of a tee shirt, Kaluta's got the real deal.
Take it, leave it but read it. Better yet, beep it, then leap with it, where you may have feared to tread,quickly though... before you forget where you were before it.
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• I Wish I'd Found It Sooner!! 16 October, 2005
I purchased The Perfect Stage Crew after taking over the Theatre Arts class and role as Technical Director at the high school where I teach. I had little theater experience and no technical knowledge when I accepted both positions. Prior to purchasing this text, I had read numerous reviews and purchased other texts, none of which addressed the specific issues I was encountering on a daily basis - such as basic stagecraft, simple (but effective) lighting, tips for managing a crew and tricks for maintaining my sanity. The text reads easily and is well organized. Mr. Kaluta has a priceless sense of humor, and I would swear he's been backstage in my theater! I feel confident in following his advice and learning from his mistakes because he's been where I am. I have even moved away from the "textbook" for my course and started creating notes and handouts gleaned from the pointers and information in The Perfect Stage Crew. Thank you so much for writing a book on technical theater that doesn't read like an instructional manual for a vacuum cleaner and that makes me laugh out loud while nodding in agreement. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone working in high school or community theatre. It has proven invaluable to me, and I expect to return to it often over the next several years.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3MXRHW8798ZHM
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