Die Fledermaus
Creative Team
Director
Conductor Timothy Dean
Assistant Director
Designer
Assistant Designer
Lighting Designer
Production Team
Production Manager Stephen Roe
Stage Manager Valentino Fabbreschi
Deputy Stage Manager Chariya Glasse-Davies
Assistant Stage Managers
Technical Stage Manager Ben Leach
Deputy Technical Stage Manager Heather McKennan
Head Flyman Reece Flynn
Stage Technicians Rachel Matthews, Rosie Orford, Fraser Cherrington, Yesha Subotincic West,
Chief Production Electrician Rachel Wells
Deputy Production Electrician Adelaide Harney
Board Programmer and Operator
Assistant Electricians
Production Photos
Stage Management
Props used in this opera, please see below.
File:DF Master setting list-1.pdf
Technical Stage Management
One of the largest stage elements to the Opera was a giant champagne bottle. The bottle was constructed with metal rod in the centre to make it sturdy and then polystyrene was shaped on these to look like a champagne bottle. The bottle was put on castors so it could be moved on stage live by cast members and it also had a reinforced bottom edge to allow us to tip it on it's side during a hidden scene change. The bottle had to be moved by 2 people minimum when upright and required 6 people at a time to tip it over: 2 to lower, 2 to push and 2 on each side to give it balance.
There was a letterbox flat (bar 3) which was used to create a hotel scene (Act 1) and a prison scene (Act 3). This difference was distinguished by having curtains fixed on a rail to the flat during Act 1 then during the interval we would detach the curtains, fly in the prison bars (on bar 4) and fix the prison bars to the letterbox flat so that the two bars could be flown together. 5 pin hinges were enough to fly both bars together as it was correctly balanced. The curtain rail (Act 1) was attached onto the flat by being on a baton which was just sitting on hooks mounted on the back of the flat. When the curtain rail was not in use it was attached to a spare bar and flown up above the stage (this was done during the interval).
The champagne bottle was built out of polystyrene by the props department. It took just 2 people to move (as it was on wheels) but 6 people (in steel toe-capped shoes) to lower it down as it was very heavy.
The large set of on-stage treads used for Act 2 come too far down stage and flying pieces would not be able to come into the ground had the treads not been movable. For this reason, they were fitted with a pneumatic lifting system (using CO2). This meant that the stairs could be moved by just two crew members and without damaging the stage.
Fly Plot
Within both the Flyplot and Running List, it is all colour coordinated to deads on the fly floor which made it easy to read at first glance when flying in this fly heavy show.
Electrics
created 9/6/17