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[Justin D]

Posted: 8/27/18 at 11:08am

Lot666 said: "Justin D said: "for the original sunset tour, the mansion was loaded onto a platform that had 2 huge scissor lifts that would raise it up and down, and the platform wound also move up and downstage (think of 2 very big car jacks)"

How did this work with Artie's apartment at the end of the first act? If the mansion was elevated by scissor lifts placed underneath it, how did the apartment come in whenthe mansion went up?"

the lifts were in the wing space so there is free space under the mansion once it goes up for artie's apartment to slide under. They also had a bit more elaborate steps for the gun shot scene (not just the plain steps but it had a pair of ornate planters either side of the stairs

 

[Justin D]

Posted: 8/27/18 at 11:12am

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156679853433690&set=pb.507793689.-2207520000.1535382669.&type=3&theater

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/27/18 at 11:13am

I have posted this before. It is about 9 years old but is interesting and talks about PHANTOM, WICKED and THE LION KING tours.

 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/denver/article/The-Technical-Side-of-THE-PHANTOM-OF-THE-OPERAs-North-American-Tour-20090422

Updated On: 8/27/18 at 11:13 AM

[Fosse76]

Posted: 8/27/18 at 11:22am

AEA AGMA SM said: "The original tour shuttered before it hit Cleveland, so I just saw the greatly reduced Schulman staging, but my guess would be that the apartment tracked in from the sides and met at center underneath the mansion once it was raised."

That's exactly how it happened on the original US tour.

[Lot666]

Posted: 8/28/18 at 1:59pm

Justin D said: "the lifts were in the wing space so there is free space under the mansion once it goes up for artie's apartment to slide under. They also had a bit more elaborate steps for the gun shot scene (not just the plain steps but it had a pair of ornate planters either side of the stairs"

Thanks for sharing, I LOVE details like this. 

 

[Lot666]

Posted: 8/28/18 at 2:14pm

uncageg said: "I have posted this before. It is about 9 years old but is interesting and talks about PHANTOM, WICKED and THE LION KING tours.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/denver/article/The-Technical-Side-of-THE-PHANTOM-OF-THE-OPERAs-North-American-Tour-20090422"

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

[faceleg]

Posted: 8/28/18 at 10:28pm

Auggie27 said: "Did anyone see Channing in a "Dolly" tour without it? I saw it at the National in DC back in the day (first with Bailey, en route to B'way, then with Channing in the mid-70s). It had a version of this feature."

A teacher I has swore she saw a tour of Dolly that was done in the round?

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 8/28/18 at 11:02pm

faceleg said: "A teacher I has swore she saw a tour of Dolly that was done in the round?"

A Channing tour? It's surely been done in the round at places like Sacramento Music Circus or North Shore Music Theatre or the Marriott Lincolnshire, but there are virtually no in-the-round touring theatres in the US.

[faceleg]

Posted: 8/29/18 at 7:04pm

SomethingPeculiar said: "faceleg said: "A teacher I has swore she saw a tour of Dolly that was done in the round?"

A Channing tour? It's surely been done in the round at places like Sacramento Music Circus or North Shore Music Theatre or the Marriott Lincolnshire, but there are virtually no in-the-round touring theatres in the US."

It may have been like maybe a one off production with Channing. She says it was her, because Channing having never worked in the round, would turn and do the same shtick or facial joke or something to each side of the audience. I paraphrase. 

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 8/29/18 at 7:37pm

faceleg said: "It may have been like maybe a one off production with Channing. She says it was her, because Channing having never worked in the round, would turn and do the same shtick or facial joke or something to each side of the audience. I paraphrase."


Just found this... Westbury Music Fair in 1981 (NYT review). And you're right, this Westbury production was part of a national tour, but re-staged to be performed in-the-round...interesting!

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 8/30/18 at 12:32pm

From when The Lion King came to Tulsa in 2006

"Because the Tulsa Performing Arts Center’s Chapman Music Hall is configured with no center aisles, Disney provided engineers to remove approximately 150 seats from the auditorium’s orchestra level so the animals could make their famous entrance. It wasn’t as simple as just taking out the seats, it also included the addition of luminescent strips, the construction of two bridges across the orchestra pit, and alteration of the music hall doors to make room for the elephant to squeeze through. Disney paid for the changes and returned the hall to normal after the tour made its final curtain call."

Full article, which also talks about other things they had to alter for the tour:

http://www.ballet-dance.com/200610/articles/LionKing20060525.html

The Tulsa PAC was celebrating it's 30th anniversary that next year.   After Lion King, they installed all new seats, but returned to the no center aisle.

 

 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/30/18 at 12:37pm

So the lifts slid underneath the mansion to raise it? Never seen a tour so complex. How interesting!

[Tag]

Posted: 8/30/18 at 12:50pm

No it doesn't sound like the lifts slid anywhere.  They were in the wings and raised the mansion up from there, creating a space underneath, onstage.