For Wicked fans ONLY — Page 2

#26

re: For Wicked fans ONLY

Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:40pm

o man i had no idea about all that stuff. I saw it today and was wondering why you couldnt see her feet haha.
Glinda gets harnessed in the Bubble, but that is obvious because you see someone doing it.
When boq pulls the lions tale, there is a guy on the other side pulling as well. thats obvious
When the wizard is saying how wonderful he is all thru that there are people behind that big face that i guess pull it back. They just stood there it was random.

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#27

re: For Wicked fans ONLY

Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:45pm

Based on what I have heard Eden and Kristin say about this scene. Idina is on a small platform. Eden said that there is not much room and, if I remember correctly, she almost fell off of it. She is connected by a strap thing to the back of it. I assume that Kristin is helping to set it all up when she puts the cape on. She joked about it on Chatterbox. And I clearly heard the snep of the harness thing when I was in the theater. Now I may be wrong but I think I remember Eden saying that she has to attach the harness herself right before the platform lifts. You can hear her talk about it on Chatterbox.

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#28

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:45pm

So is Boq lipsyncing the rest of the show when he is the tin man?

#29

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:49pm

By the way, when Mary Martin flew on stage at the Winter Garden Theatre way back in 1954... her feet didn't disappear... and when Cathy Rigby last defyed gravity on Broadway at the same exact theatre: The George Gershwin Theatre in 1999... she didn't need a platform...

#30

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:50pm

No, Boq isn't lipsinking the rest of the show. By the next scene it really is the character playing Boq why would he have to?

And Elphaba does strap the thing around her waist - You can see her do it. It's a wretched effect.

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#31

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:51pm

Did they have to belt a high F while doing so Cats?

#32

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:52pm

No, swifty. The only part where there is any lipsynching with Boq is right after he's turned into the tinman. There is no time to have Chris Fitzgerald (or whoever's on as Boq that day) get into his tinman makeup, so a standin already in the makeup gets into the wheelchair, stands up, and mouths whatever Chris (who offstage or hidden onstage) says. After that, they put Chris into his tinman outfit, and it is really him onstage, singing, during March of the Witch Hunters.

#33

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:53pm

Oh Ok Thanks

#34

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:53pm

I would assume then, that they were going for a different effect with Wicked. And I will say it was quite stunning. The lighting was killer and my jaw just dropped. I had gone in thinking that she was going to fly across the stage. But what they did was just fine with me.

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Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#35

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:57pm

BroadwayGirl107, in those days I'm sure Mary Martin would have hit a high F while balancing an elephant on a trapeze...

#36

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:58pm

Cats, love your icon. Tony Vincet is one of my favs. He has a great voice. Ok, back to your originally scheduled program.

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#37

re: For Wicked fans ONLY

Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:58pm

You didn't answer my question...

#38

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:59pm

it's not worth answering...

#39

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:03pm

Should I word it a different way? Did they have to sing anything incredibly demanding while they were lifted? Did they have to sing at all? Because, you know, it's a tiny bit difficult to sing with a harness on your waist. The more demanding the song, they less likely it is that they are ABLE to create the flyign effect that way...

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 10:03 PM

#40

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:07pm

Gosh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize your talent was limited to your air born circumstances. I've heard this argument before and quite frankly, I think Idina's a sissy. And before you ask me to do it, how about getting a life...

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 10:07 PM

#41

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:10pm

Wow, look who lacks the brain cells now Cats...I'm not even going to try explaining a harness to you, clearly your brain has reached maximum capacity, little boy.

#42

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:11pm

mmmmm... I know all about them. I can hit a high F while in a harness and suspended on a wire. Anything else?

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 10:11 PM

#43

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:19pm

Oh, most certainly nothing else. You're completely rude, and you have the brain of a two year old, yet you still choose to be completely disrespectful to me without reason. I'm done with you. And grow up...it could only do you good.

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 10:19 PM

#44

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:21pm

idina - girl
you - boy

idina's a sissy? when you are flying high and singing on a bway stage - then you can call her a sissy

#45

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:27pm

I have a question Cats...why is that in your profile?

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--

#46

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:37pm

you quote Elphaba in your signature. I can quote you in mine...

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 10:37 PM

#47

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:44pm

if you're so interested in Defying Gravity and her being lifted, it's cool when you watch the Tony's clip because she has this buckle thing around her neck when she's in the air. If you wanna see PM me, and I'll send you the clip although it was on the Tony's so I'm assuming most saw it before but maybe you didn't notice it.

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#48

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:46pm

ummm... the buckle is part of the costume design for the cape. it has nothing to do with her being lifted dumb a$s... becasue I mean, if that's what you think is actually holding her, if she falls... a buckle around her neck would come in so handy... it would strangle her... I wonder if she'd still be able to hit a high F being strangled mid air...

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 10:46 PM

#49

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:53pm

relax - it isn't that big of a deal

#50

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 10:55pm

I was only saying it's cool seeing her up in the air and I noticed the buckle, did I ever say it was holding her up? Uhhhh, nope- did not. People seem interested in her "flying" so I'm asking if anyone want's to see it. Wow, some1 has no life on BWW =)

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"sing til you're breaking glass, or you're breaking down.."