Behind the curtain: the plan behind a very small stage
Pull the curtain aside and there is no orchestra pit, just a few people who kept asking what a stage would look like if it were built to a child’s scale. This is the stage plot: where each piece stands and why.
The stage plot
Light ring
Color that moves with the song, and a switch to turn it off. The glow is for the performer; the switch is for the parent reading in the next room.
Microphone, left
Sized for a hand that still holds a crayon in a fist. Light enough to wave through a whole chorus.
The cube
A speaker that fits in a backpack and sounds bigger than it looks. Volume is tuned for ears that are closer to the grille than ours.
Microphone, right
Always in the box. We never shipped a solo set, because the second mic is where the friendship happens.
Carry strap
The piece that turns a bedroom toy into a car toy, a classroom toy and a porch toy. Stages that travel get used.
The tour so far
- Stop one
A single cube in one color, two microphones, five silly voices. Enough to learn what children actually press first.
- Stop two
Nine finishes, because the kid who wanted dark forest green was not going to settle for pink, and vice versa.
- Stop three
Three- and four-mic sets after hearing the same story from many houses: the third child was always waiting.
- Stop four
Character editions with a shark, a kitten, a snowman and a dinosaur drawn across the front panel.
- Stop five
Monster-feet stilts, for the moment the show spills into the yard and the audience wants a turn at something.
- This stop
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