The Tred Avon Players' Modernization Campaign!
Help us create the magic!
Theatre is so much more than just actors on a stage. So much of a show's feel and mood comes from lighting and sound. Lightning and thunder, or the sun setting slowly by the ocean, or a mysterious fog rolling in as eerie music plays.
At TAP productions we make that magic happen as best we can with what we have. Help us make 21st century magic with a donation to our modernization campaign.
Your donation buys much needed equipment.
Sound Equipment
SFX are now mostly electronic, and along with high tech sound systems make it possible for TAP to bring you top-flight original and Broadway musicals. You could make that happen with a donation toward a new sound board ($3,000), walkie-talkies, or microphones. |
Lighting Equipment
We need a new light board ($2,500), gels, wiring, and lights for the stage ($4,000 each). Every donation helps our goal! |
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London
used a cannon inside its roof to herald
great entrances or, along with fireworks, the sounds of battle. 
Unfortunately, the
cannon started a fire that burned the
Globe to the ground in 1613. Other Shakepearean sound effects (SFX) include
musical instruments, actors who could
howl like animals and a metal sheet or
rolling cannonball for thunder!
In 1803, "limelight" became the first spotlight:
limestone burned in a flame gave off bright,
greenish light.
Today, inventions like halogen lamps and
computer technology make lighting an art
form that unites plot, costume, scenery and all other facts of production.
Help TAP make 21st century magic by
a donation to our modernization
campaign. You can help buy us a new piece
of sorely needed lighting equipment. 
Chairs
Get naming rights to a new chair in the audience. We will engrave your name, or that of anyone else (or anything else) you want on one of our deluxe new chairs, for just $250.00.
We need 160 chairs so get yours soon before they run out!