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The door frames for the house have been built and are ready for the paint shop to paint and treat them.
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After the beginning framework of the windows have been built in the scene shop, the paint shop begins to bring them to life. One of the first steps is to paint the window frames. We used these bright pink and green colors to get the texture of the desired
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Romina Diaz-Brarda continues to work on the window and door frames for the house. Some of the pieces have already been painted a brown color and treated to look worn and are on the floor drying.
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Along with the door and window frames, the roof and flooring for the house must be built. The scene shop begins the process of building the flooring.
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The foundations of the roof of the house are built in the scene shop.
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Andrew Cancellieri works on pieces of the foundation of the house in the scene shop. These foam pieces will be transformed into the appearance of a cross section of floor studs.
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Romina Diaz-Brarda uses special painting techniques to create the wood flooring for inside the house.
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The wallpaper for the interior walls of the house are made by hand in the paint shop using special techniques.
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Before the scene shop begins to build the pieces for the set, they must build models to make sure they get it just right. Before beginning to make the wooden spikes for the set, they built this model.
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A bucket of wooden spikes for the set sit out on a table in the paint shop with the design blueprints.
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The spikes are not actually wooden. They are made of pink foam first and are ready to be painted to look like wood.
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After the pink foam spikes are built, they are primed before they can be painted like wood.
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The length of each spike is noted on the bottom while they wait to be loaded onto the stage.
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Katie Keaton paints each spike to look like wood.
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Before the costume shop can sew the costumes from scratch, they must create the pattern.
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To make Lincoln's coat, the costume shop picks out the perfect fabric.
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In order to design Lincoln's coat, Jen Bennett does some design research.
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The beginning pieces of the coat are put together.
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More pieces of the coat are pinned and pieced together in the early stages of construction and tailoring.