Oake Acres 2

Now we're looking from the audience up toward the stage right band platform, above which is the obligatory King Size bedsheet used as a slide screen during OLD TARZAN. Except for the screen this area of the stage would be virtually invisible during production with only the band's music lights on. You can just glimpse the "Horse Stable dressing Room in the far left background of this picture.

The bottom shot shows the area where the action of OLD TARZAN bordered at stage right. This area was the first we built up at Oak Acres using steps and platforms brought over from Grissoms on Highway 80. It reamained the "Center Stage area for many years, but here gives way to the big platform just at the right which RICHARD HILL and I built in 1984 for MIRANDOLINA and more importantly for  ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN  which required the famous Revolving Wall as the main gag in Act 2. Here this part of the stage is dressed as the House of Tarzan the Killer, with the ramp specially built as the entranceway. I used a lot of bamboo and reed matting to suggest a structure built up from the jungle floor by Tarzan himself.