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Caroline
Yacono
Gas Lamp Inc.
Gas Lamp Junior debuted in the summer of 2007. We produced full musicals with children in grades K-8 and hired students grades 9-12 + university level as camp counselors and production / run crew. As the program developed over the years, opportunities for our older students developed in design, stage management and stage craft. Gas Lamp also employed
a full teaching staff alongside the production staff each summer, thus further developing Gas Lamp Academy of Performing Arts (GLAPA).
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown!
Director & Scenic Designer / Artist
Production Photo
Montclair Times
Press Photo / Release
Alice In Wonderland
Director & Scenic Designer / Artist
Press Photo
Production Logo
Cast Photo
V-Capture Production Photography
Rehearsal & Production Process
 Set Design & Charge Scenic Artist |  Rehearsal Photo |  Scenic Design / Charge Scenic Artist & Technical Director |
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 Production Notes w/ Run Crew |  Cheshire Cat Puppet Construction |  Cheshire Cat Puppet Construction / Props |
 Cheshire Cat's Tree / Scenic Designer / Tree Sculpture / Set Piece |  Cheshire Cat Puppet Construction / Electrics Install / Props |  Cheshire Cat Puppet Construction / Props |
 Scenic Design / Charge Scenic Artist & Technical Director |
Seussical Jr.
Director & Scenic Designer / Artist
I directed Seussical Jr three times in a single year. The first production was with Gas Lamp & had a unit set. (Left) NJ Star Ledger
Pushcart Players
Pushcart Players is a TYA Equity contract traveling children's troupe as well as a producing theatre for venues with youth clientele. I worked at two venues with Pushcart; The Metropolitan YMCA of The Oranges, Rosen PAC (formerly the YMHA of North Jersey) grades 1-8 and St. Rose of Lima a private middle school in Short Hills, NJ, grades 7 & 8. We produced full musical productions at both venues. Each facility was fundamentally different in set up and staffing. Rosen PAC had small but efficient professional staff who could assist with production and design while at St. Rose I had a small crew of parent volunteers and a handful of students for production support.
Seussical Jr.
Director & Scenic Designer / Artist
Production Photo, St. Rose of Lima
Production Preset, Rosen PAC
PR & Press / Logo , Rosen PAC
Rehearsal Photo, Rosen PAC
Aladdin
Director
Production Photo, Rosen PAC
Montclair Township: Department of Recreational & Cultural Affairs
The Montclair Haunted House Spooktacular Extravaganza
Director / Production Designer excluding sound provided by Sound Associates Inc.
Montclair Spooktacular was a haunted house I was commissioned by the township to develop, direct and design. The house was designed & intended as an event for the children of Montclair and neighboring communities. Financial & material contributions and donations were made by individual community members and by local businesses. Special Thank you for support to Joe Santorelli Wardrobe Flats & Production Trucks, Sound Associates, 4-Wall Entertainment, Applegate Farms, Montclair Township Staff, the cast & production/run-crew who turned the Edgemont Fieldhouse & Park into Spooktacular Extravaganza that over 800 children and their families attended.
Concept Design- Scenes / Field House Interior: Entrance Doorway-Ticket Booth / Dr. Frankenstein & The Monster / Creature Dungeon / Vampires' Master Bedroom / Fortune Teller of Treasures / Ghouls in the Graveyard / Hallway of Jack-O-Lanterns / to Exterior Exit Door/ Corn Stalk Pathway / Witch & Monkey Minion with Cauldron in Pumpkin "Applegate Farms Giveaway" Patch / Hanging Skeletons is the beginning of Line-Up to Horse Drawn Carriage Hayrides Around the Pond.
Black Light -Bat Cave Props
Vampire Scene
Costume Fitting & Coffin Rehearsal
Black Light- Ghoul Dressing
Witches Scene / Pumpkin Giveaway Donation from Applegate Farm
Hall of Jack-O-Lanterns (carved and lit pumpkins also lined both sides of the corridor)
Pumpkins Donation- Applegate Farm
Fortune Teller Scene- Props & Dressing
Dr. Frankenstein's Creature Dungeon -The Twins / Rehearsal & Costume Fittings
Production / Rehearsal / Costume Fitting Process
Fortune Teller Treasure Dressing & Props
Vampire Witch Set Dressing- Interior
Monkey Minion w/ Witch at Witch's Cauldron and Pumpkin Giveaway / Rehearsal & Costume Fitting
Hanging Skeletons- Line-up for Horse & Carriage Drawn Hayride Around the Pond at Edgemont Park
Mummy & Gravestone Set Dressing Ghouls in the Graveyard Scene
The Director & Creator at Rehearsal
The Man In The Window made it's world premiere at the Roy Arias Studios in NYC in The Mid-Winter One Act Play Festival. Later that year the show toured to western Pennsylvania where it played at the Saxonburg Festival of the Arts. John Roebling founded Saxonburg in 1832 where he invented the steel cable that suspends the Brooklyn Bridge.
Orwald Arts Initiative
The Man In the Window: The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Director
Production Poster
Press Release
Running Rabbit Family Theatre
RRFT was a TYA Equity contract touring children's company with former residence at Luna Stage. Pinocchio played at the Westminster Arts Center on the campus of Bloomfield College, The Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University and at Premiere Stages at Kean University.
Production Photo
Pinocchio
Producer
Production Flyer
Director & Scenic Design / Producer Gallery
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