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CHAPTER 5PROSCENIUM THEATRES

IF YOU ARE staging a Broadway musical, this is the theatre for you. Proscenium theatres were developed for just that sort of spectacle. Plays are written with specific ways of staging them in mind, and any show more than 40 but less than 400 years old was probably written with a proscenium theatre in mind. They have lots of equipment to “make the magic happen” and it is important for any aspiring stagehand or shop carpenter to know as much as possible about this type of theatre.

THE AUDITORIUM

In any plan view drawing of a theatre, the stage is always shown at the top of the paper and the auditorium at the ...

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