Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#1

Posted: 12/18/13 at 3:52pm

What is your favorite floor elevator stage entrance/exit?

Updated On: 12/18/13 at 03:52 PM

[madbrian]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#2

Posted: 12/18/13 at 3:54pm

First thing that comes to mind is Show Off, from Drowsy Chaperone.

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[artscallion]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#2

Posted: 12/18/13 at 3:56pm

All That Jazz

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[jonartdesigns]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#3

Posted: 12/18/13 at 4:01pm

I second the velma-vator and add
Frank in Rocky Horror

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[Marianne2]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#4

Posted: 12/18/13 at 4:14pm

The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot.

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[Tag]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#5

Posted: 12/18/13 at 4:19pm

The Genie entrance/exit in the upcoming Aladdin is probably the only good thing about the show.

[Gothampc]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#6

Posted: 12/18/13 at 4:25pm

At Trinity Rep, for several years they did A Christmas Carol. They have a small model of Big Ben rise up to stage level and Scrooge flies over the clock. Such great imagery. Such great magical theater.

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[darquegk]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#7

Posted: 12/18/13 at 4:28pm

I enjoyed the two bookend floor elevator entrances and exits in Mary Poppins- her almost toaster-like shooting up from behind the family in Act 1, and the gleefully absurd sequence when she sends the rival nanny to hell in a birdcage in Act 2.

[gleek4114]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#8

Posted: 12/18/13 at 4:58pm

Ursala's death in Little Mermaid.

[willrogers2008]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#9

Posted: 12/18/13 at 8:30pm

Gregory Hines entrance in JELLY'S LAST JAM. Unforgettable.

[justincharacter]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#10

Posted: 12/18/13 at 8:46pm

The Witch's exit in the 2002 revival of Into the Woods, at the end of "Last Midnight".

[justincharacter]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#11

Posted: 12/18/13 at 8:46pm

Double post...
Updated On: 12/18/13 at 08:46 PM

[bwayphreak234]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#12

Posted: 12/19/13 at 12:01am

^ YES! I LOVED how she swirled into the deck in a flurry of red fabric after shedding her skin and hair. So creepy.

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[theatregeek6]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#13

Posted: 12/19/13 at 7:24am

Seconding "Show Off" from Drowsy, if only because the exit itself is mentioned in the lyric.

[Mister Matt]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#14

Posted: 12/19/13 at 3:57pm

Lola's entrance in the Damn Yankees revival.

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[evic]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#15

Posted: 12/19/13 at 4:02pm

Chita as Velma in original Chicago..........thrilling

[Hex3]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#16

Posted: 12/19/13 at 4:13pm

I have to agree with the Witch's exit at the end of Last Midnight in the 2002 Into the Wood's revival. It was very creepy and the visuals (her tearing off her hair and bits of her dress) with the spinning downward was just fantastic. I must say that I didn't like much about this production but this was definitely a highlight. And I know that you can find clips of this scene. But believe me when I say that it can not compare to have seen it done live. I didn't see any of it coming and it was just wonderfully shocking. The Witch's transformation was also handled with the same elevator. However, for that it lifted and spun her into the air. Two fantastic stage effects.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#17

Posted: 12/19/13 at 4:55pm

"Lola's entrance in the Damn Yankees revival."

It's been so long that I only remember how they did it on tour, which did not involve a trap, as I recall. From my recollection of the tour there was a set piece (maybe a furnace/boiler) in Applegate's apartment that had doors that swung open with a mylar shimmer curtain inside through which we first see Lola extending just one leg, then the rest of her followed.

Now I'm racking my brain trying to remember if it was different on Broadway, but that is coming up on 20 years since I saw it! (which is crazy to think of in and of itself)

[Gothampc]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#18

Posted: 12/19/13 at 5:04pm

"Now I'm racking my brain trying to remember if it was different on Broadway"

I think wasn't Bebe brought up from underneath the stage. Was she on a piece of furniture? A bed or sofa? I can't remember.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Wildcard]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#19

Posted: 12/19/13 at 5:11pm

Red Death in the Phantom of the Opera

[morosco]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#20

Posted: 12/19/13 at 5:18pm

Sweeney's rise from the grave in the original production of Sweeney Todd.

[wonkit]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#21

Posted: 12/19/13 at 6:20pm

morosco - I second that. Everything about the original SWEENEY was breath-taking.

[Skywalker3]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#22

Posted: 12/20/13 at 4:54am

I loved the entrance of the 'Greek Chorus' in Legally Blonde.

The exit of the mine workers in Billy Elliot at the ending of 'Once we were kings' is absolutely thrilling and gives me goosebumps every time!

[PalJoey]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#23

Posted: 12/20/13 at 9:59am

It's a movie but it all comes back to this:


I'm melting, melting. Ohhhh, what a world, what a world. Who would have thought that some little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness.

[dreaming]

Favorite Floor Elevator Entrance/Exit?#24

Posted: 12/20/13 at 10:13am

I love the Witch's entrance in "The Wizard of Oz" even more than the melting-it scared the crap out of me as a kid.

I also love the Mine Workers' exit in Billy Elliot as well as the original entrance of Sweeney Todd (saw that as a kid, too, on TV, and it really scared me).

An addition-the Phantom's Act 2 entrance is pretty cool.