{"product_id":"costume-change-plot","title":"Costume Change Plot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery costume change, in running order, with the fast ones flagged before tech week finds them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the Wednesday before tech. The designer’s look list is done, the cast list is done, and somewhere in between is the thing nobody has written down yet: who changes, when, where, into what, and who is standing in the wing holding the pieces. Right now it lives in three people’s heads and a photo of a whiteboard. On Saturday it will live in the dark, at forty-five seconds a change, with a dresser sprinting from stage left to stage right because two changes landed on the same page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the sheet that catches all costume changes and keeps them organized.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat’s built in\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA QUICK flag, under your threshold.\u003c\/strong\u003e One mint cell on Start Here, 1:00 to start. Anything with less time than that lights up on the plot and on the cards. A booth with two dressers can push it to 0:45; a costume with a head deserves 1:30. Change the cell and every flag follows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA dresser check.\u003c\/strong\u003e A dresser named on two consecutive changes in different places, within a page window you set, gets a DRESSER flag: they cannot be in both. Two pages is a walk between the wings with no time to spare. Twenty is a scene, and nobody needs a flag for that, so the window is yours too.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRun cards that write themselves.\u003c\/strong\u003e One card per place: Dressing Room, Off SL, Off SR, Quick-Change Booth, Onstage. Only that place’s changes, in running order, with the pieces, the dresser, the time and the flags carried over. Each card prints on its own page. When the plot changes in tech, print again; the cards are never edited by hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePieces on, one per line.\u003c\/strong\u003e What goes on, never what comes off. The dresser reads the list top to bottom with the pieces in their hands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDoublers and onstage transformations, plotted.\u003c\/strong\u003e Character names the role they are changing into; From look says what they leave. A reveal or a transformation in a light change is a row like any other: Where is Onstage, the time is the cover, and it flags QUICK, which it should.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere as a dropdown, tinted.\u003c\/strong\u003e Five places, one color each, so a dresser can scan the plot for their side.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBonus: the Quick Change Tracker\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plot tells you which changes are quick. The tracker is for the ten or twelve that scare you: sit with the book and count the seconds between the exit and the re-entry, then put a stopwatch on the change in the room with the real shoes and the real dresser. Window, Actual, and the margin between them, with a status that goes red when it does not fit. A second Sheet, its own copy link on the download page, and the honest answer to where the time actually goes: it is almost never the garment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe five tabs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStart Here\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eThe short instructions inside the file, and the two settings the flags read.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChange Plot\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eThe grid you fill: 40 rows wired, 14 columns, one row per change. The Flag column writes itself.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRun Cards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWrites itself from the Change Plot. One card per place. Nothing to type.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExample Change Plot · Example Run Cards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eThe same two, filled in for \u003cem\u003eBeauty and the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe worked example\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeauty and the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e at Robinson Hall Theatre, the same fictional house as the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/character-scene-breakdown\"\u003eCharacter\/Scene Breakdown\u003c\/a\u003e’s \u003cem\u003eOklahoma!\u003c\/em\u003e, with an invented company: 30 changes across two acts, 12 actors, 4 dressers by first name. Every place is used, Onstage twice: the Enchantress’s reveal in the Prologue and the Beast’s transformation at the end. Two doublers, including the Old Beggar Woman who becomes the Enchantress and then the Wardrobe. One ensemble track you can read straight down: milkmaid, candlestick, tavern maid, napkin for the big number, candlestick again, mob villager, servant at the finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the flags, all three: a 0:45 change on the same page as another one, other side of the stage, same dresser, lit up QUICK · DRESSER, with the fix in the notes. A change at exactly 1:00, not flagged, because a minute is not under a minute. The same dresser six pages apart in two places, not flagged, because that is a walk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFormat\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoogle Sheets. The walkthrough PDF carries the copy link; the copy lands in your Drive and is yours to rename, share with the wardrobe crew, and reuse next show. A free Google account is all you need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt opens in Excel via File ▸ Download. The plot comes across cleanly; the Flag column and the Run Cards tab are built on Sheets formulas and are the parts most likely to lose functionality. If you have the choice, use Sheets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelivered instantly: one Sheet, five tabs, a seven-page walkthrough that doubles as the download page, and the bonus Quick Change Tracker Sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho it’s for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWardrobe heads and costume designers in school and community theatre, the week before tech. Stage managers who mark every QUICK in the calling script. The parent volunteer who said yes to dressing and has never seen a change plot. Anyone who has stood in a wing at 0:40 with the wrong shoes in their hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTech week is going to happen either way. This is the difference between the changes running the room and the room running the changes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theaterish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49914712916120,"sku":"THR-TPL-COSTUMECHANGE","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0451\/3955\/8552\/files\/01-costume-change-plot-google-sheets.png?v=1789519548","url":"https:\/\/theaterish.com\/products\/costume-change-plot","provider":"Theaterish","version":"1.0","type":"link"}