#101
Posted: 11/10/13 at 12:23am
1. Actually, the New Amsterdam is actually owned by the city. Disney just has a (I BELIEVE) 99 year release with the city for basically free because they paid for the renovation. Therefore, as with any other theatre, Disney can do what they please so long as it is permitted in print and able to be returned to the historic state.
2. Just because ONE thing flies over an audience, doesn't mean ALL things should. Really, what would it ad? Visually, Mary, Spidey and the Goblin can fly over the audience because because they are a human and can be visible from all seats. Same with Tarzan. As was stated here, the carpet itself makes that impossible to do well because the carpet would block the actors from more than half of the audience. A 45 minute free show in a park is one thing. $200/seat on Broadway is another.
3. As was just stated above, Disney already has the basis of a carpet rig. It has proved faulty and unreliable and endangered actors and has been out of commission for lengthy stretches. That video of the carpet flipping is honestly scary. Jasmine's screaming gives me cold chills.. and to the people gawking at it, gross. Disney has already had issues with the carpet in Toronto. I doubt they'd NEED to expand that worry.
4. The structure required to fly a carpet probably can not by rigged. Flying an actor is one thing, flying a set piece holding to actors is quite another. Allowing the set piece to move through "4-D" space (as the type of rig allowing something to move anywhere within the theatre is called in theatre flying) is entirely another and I don't think any of the old Broadway theatres can physically allow it or allow it under code from the historical society.
2. Just because ONE thing flies over an audience, doesn't mean ALL things should. Really, what would it ad? Visually, Mary, Spidey and the Goblin can fly over the audience because because they are a human and can be visible from all seats. Same with Tarzan. As was stated here, the carpet itself makes that impossible to do well because the carpet would block the actors from more than half of the audience. A 45 minute free show in a park is one thing. $200/seat on Broadway is another.
3. As was just stated above, Disney already has the basis of a carpet rig. It has proved faulty and unreliable and endangered actors and has been out of commission for lengthy stretches. That video of the carpet flipping is honestly scary. Jasmine's screaming gives me cold chills.. and to the people gawking at it, gross. Disney has already had issues with the carpet in Toronto. I doubt they'd NEED to expand that worry.
4. The structure required to fly a carpet probably can not by rigged. Flying an actor is one thing, flying a set piece holding to actors is quite another. Allowing the set piece to move through "4-D" space (as the type of rig allowing something to move anywhere within the theatre is called in theatre flying) is entirely another and I don't think any of the old Broadway theatres can physically allow it or allow it under code from the historical society.
