How set pieces move across the stage?- Page 2
How set pieces move across the stage?
#25re: How set pieces move across the stage?
Posted: 9/12/05 at 9:37pm
"Because of the revolving stage, the use of "tracks" is not an option. The two huge "barricade" units are actually like parade floats - they have their own motors and are "driven" by stage hands who are concealed inside them."
hehehe the mental pictures.
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#26re: How set pieces move across the stage?
Posted: 9/12/05 at 11:24pm
I have had one experience with a hover-craft set for Bye Bye Birdie.
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#27re: How set pieces move across the stage?
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:55amThe revolving stage for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - is it the same one used by Les Mis when they were at the Imperial? The Boy From Oz (there for a year in between) didn't use a revolving stage (just a whirlwind actor - lol).....
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#28re: How set pieces move across the stage?
Posted: 9/13/05 at 9:18am
Repyling to the person who said "TravelAtor" (the A making the difference between the curtain and something else:)
The "Travelator" is something used in "The Phantom of the Opera" It is a stair case that is able to be lifted up to open it up so The Phantom and Christine can walk on it or it can be folded down to that it collapses into the stage (since the Majestic and other theaters don't have that much space to hide TWO huge stair cases). Imagine it as a deck of cards and when you shuffle them it creates a "Z". Well, imagine it like this:
Z
Z
Z
Z
All of them connected and then when it collapses it is level with the rest of the state.
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