We've Gone Bananas

Moonlight and Magnolias is a comedy and "what if" about the writing of Gone With the Wind.  The show is about the movie script being so awful they have to stop production on it bring in another writer to help the script.  Three men are locked in an office until they are finished rewriting the script and the only thing they can eat are bananas and peanuts--brainfood.  


Here is the process our props department used to make a bunch of banana peels for the show.  This was a learning process for Shanley Aumiller as she has never had the need to create banana peels for a show.

Step 1: Bought four bananas, ate them and laid out the peels as patterns.

Step 2: Trace the patterns onto yellow vinyl and spray paint to desired ripeness of fruit.  2 yards produced 22 bananas.  

Step 3: The cork "belly button" was added to the inside to let them flop open and a tiny piece of a wooden dowel was added as the stem.  

Step 4: The inside of the peel was shaded with a Sharpie and a strip of hot glue was run down the center to add a crease to the peel.  

And there you have it....a bunch of banana peels!  

Go bananas with us and Moonlight and Magnolias starting April 8th!