#1
Posted: 12/20/08 at 3:24pm
I saw BILLY ELLIOT Wednesday night and during the show there is a number where I assume it is dry ice that is used to create a low-ground smoke effect.
Was there a mistake the night I saw it, or is this an artistic choice to totally consume the first five rows of seats with smoke?
It quickly reached its way back 3 rows and went as far as 6 rows back throughout the number. The people in the first few rows could not see anything and used their programs to wipe the fog away. It became very distracting as I was sitting in the 7th row center and want to watch the show, not the audience member wave frantically.
Was there a mistake the night I saw it, or is this an artistic choice to totally consume the first five rows of seats with smoke?
It quickly reached its way back 3 rows and went as far as 6 rows back throughout the number. The people in the first few rows could not see anything and used their programs to wipe the fog away. It became very distracting as I was sitting in the 7th row center and want to watch the show, not the audience member wave frantically.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
