The Pursuit of Happyness Performance Setup

In Our first unit of our new class Stage Chemistry we worked on making blueprints of spaces where we could set up a stage by getting measurements, doing calculations and making comparisons. For my project I worked on a parking lot to create a blueprint, while focusing on a theme about how I wanted to present this "performance" with my theme being The Pursuit of Happyness. In this project we mainly focused on showing amenities of the what the blueprint presented. I tried to give my amenities a theme of being in New York as much as possible from the ticket booth at the front of the theater to the food concessions like New York street food vendors. I hope you enjoy.

While creating this project I struggled with getting the correct measurement of the parking lot space that I needed. This was probably one of the most important things that I needed to complete for this project. I got through by getting the one of the biggest measurements from the front desk worker at Menominee. Overall this was a pretty tough project to do but I ended up getting help from my piers and trying out new methods of obtaining what I needed.

"Menominee Lot" IF 2017 

"Menominee Parking" IF 2017

Goodman Theater Comparison

                                        Menominee  Lot                      Goodman Theater

Seating:                                 320 seats                                 856 seats

Type of stage:                      Proscenium                             Proscenium

Sound booth:                   No sound booth                         5 ft, 10 in deep x 9 ft, 2 in x high

Box seats:                         0 seats in 0 boxes                     48 seats in 16 boxes

Fly space:                           0 fly space                              (Above the stage) 76.5 ft

Removable center stage:  completely removable               34 ft x 40 ft is removable