PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
ALMOST 20 YEARS ago this book began life as a “shop cookbook” that had lots of information about the techniques for building wooden scenery that John learned over decades of doing just that. At the same time he worked as an IATSE stagehand. Sometimes that was on tour with Broadway musicals, and sometimes through IATSE Local 346 in Lexington, Kentucky. Working in commercial theatre was quite a learning experience. If you want to know how to build scenery that functions well in the backstage environment, it really helps to spend some time “under the blue lights” backstage, and even more time moving scenery in and out of trucks. Good times were had doing all of that, it was so much fun.
At the same time Zak was ...
