Peter Pan Flying Mistakes

With all the talk to the new Peter Pan tour, and all the posts about glitches and mistakes about the flying scene in Wicked... I was thinking... has anyone seen/experienced any flying mistakes in Peter Pan??

At a theatre workshop I attended, Cathy Rigby told a funny story about in the last tour of Peter Pan she did in Boston. During a rehearsal of the "audiencd flight" at the end, something happened. Apparently there are two people pulling wires at the point. One to pull her UP, and one to pull her OUT. Well whoever was pull her UP missed the mark or something... Because Cathy went off the stage and straight out toward the seats. She said she kept thinking "Up! Up! Up!"... before crashing into the empty seats in the audience. Luckily the seats were cushioned, and she wasn't hurt badly. She said she just got banged up and a few bruises. Thank god this was only a rehearsal!!!

I saw a school performance of it, and it was so funny. There were so many flying mistakes, but the best one was at the end when Jane started to fly and they accidently made her fly off into the wings, and then she came back on stage and had the little michrophone box on her shoulder. It was a lot of fun

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Even Cathy Rigby said ZFX is FAR better than Foy...

that would be good....and fun, methinks. I saw peter pan once at a community theatre, and that was pretty funny...no flying allowed, due to insurance costs. they just jumped off the stage. It was lame.

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i was recently in a school production of Peter Pan, (i was Capt Hook) and we used FLYING BY FOY. at the first performance, Michael flew straight up and almost died. Otherwise everything was fine except during rehearsals when Peter flew around way too early at times. humorous but annoying. FOY was a real hassle to work with. not nice people and real expensive. not worth it

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the MARY MARTIN anecdote i originally posted here is told better and more accurately by BROADWAYGUY2 ... see his post below!

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Updated On: 4/18/05 at 03:47 PM

LOL we did Angels in America @ my college and my good friend was the angel and she flew at the end...My two friends that were flying her had always brought her down really slow since the rigging was new and they weren't used to it. then at one rehearsal they decided to drop her really fast *like it would be for performance* but didn't tell her..so they dropped her and she thought she was gonna die.

and then she let go of one of the lines and it flew up into the ceiling and they had to fix it...

that's my story...

yay flying!

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Yeah we just did millenium approaches...we were thinking about doing Perestroika *spelling!!* but it's WAY TOO technical for us...there are like in air battles and stuff...!

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"Even Cathy Rigby said ZFX is FAR better than Foy... "

Perhaps I'm wrong but wasn't Rigby partly responsible for the development of ZFX?

Check out the cool ZFX website. It has lots of clips showing their company's flying used onstage.
The ZFX Website

I think you are incorrect but I could be wrong. I will look into it but I bet the Captn knows.

Any insight Captn?

SMiller

My school did PP two years before I went there, and I heard stories of how they had to have a bucket on the side of the stage, cuz the girl playing PP kpet throwing up, due to the harness.

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On theflyguy website they have someone flying in a Suessical workshop to "It's Possible"

Has anyone ever done a school production of Suessical when they used flying?

Was this flying for the Bway Production? DId they use flying for the Vlad Vladicoff sequence on B'way?

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