Main Street Attraction...

A melodrama is played-out at the train station steps area.

Before a gray back curtain, there is a graytone set, with various settings
and props.

Actors in turn-of-the 20th century costumes: also in graytone and entirely
covered in graytone makeup bring us back to the bygone era.

An old-fashioned silent film with its drama and happy ending is portrayed on
the makeshift stage with all the flamboyant acting of the day in
low-lighting, accompanied by a strobe light, mimicking the silent film
flicker, and the emotionally charged piano.

The great film comedians of that era are also part of the show, and cops
with billy clubs, wild, dipsy and clumsy, seek to arrest their man.

I would like to see if there is any kind of lighting that could wash out
colors sufficiently, to make the buildings of Main Street the actual setting
for the "movies". The Firehouse would make a wonderful one for a set of
kooky firemen who can't pull themselves together well enough to leave the
station.

---firefly

For the stage and props version, side by side stages could be used. When
the lights are on one, the stage crew, wearing night-vision goggles, set up
the next scene on the darkened stage.

---firefly


"firefly" <fireflyguy@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>A melodrama is played-out at the train station steps area.
>
> Before a gray back curtain, there is a graytone set, with various settings
> and props.
>
> Actors in turn-of-the 20th century costumes: also in graytone and entirely
> covered in graytone makeup bring us back to the bygone era.
>
> An old-fashioned silent film with its drama and happy ending is portrayed
> on the makeshift stage with all the flamboyant acting of the day in
> low-lighting, accompanied by a strobe light, mimicking the silent film
> flicker, and the emotionally charged piano.
>
> The great film comedians of that era are also part of the show, and cops
> with billy clubs, wild, dipsy and clumsy, seek to arrest their man.
>
> I would like to see if there is any kind of lighting that could wash out
> colors sufficiently, to make the buildings of Main Street the actual
> setting for the "movies". The Firehouse would make a wonderful one for a
> set of kooky firemen who can't pull themselves together well enough to
> leave the station.
>
> ---firefly
>