Top 5 Coolest Effects- Page 2

[Jwaa]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#25

Posted: 4/6/05 at 4:58pm

I nearly jumped out of my seat at the train part in WOMAN IN WHITE....awesome effect..even if it was on screen!

[milliemarch]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#26

Posted: 4/6/05 at 5:35pm

The car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. After seeing that, I can't even think of any other special effects haha.

[Holliwoodblonde]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#27

Posted: 4/6/05 at 5:45pm

When I was eight my Mom took me to see Singin' in the Rain. I can't remember if it was a tour or the college's production..But it actually rained!! Seeing it actually rain onstage is what made me say "I want to do that!"

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[FosseBoi]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#28

Posted: 4/6/05 at 5:47pm

1. Transformation scene
2. Defying Gravity(It's VERY effective)
Cant think of much more, dont have enough time!

"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line

[matthius202]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#29

Posted: 4/6/05 at 5:59pm

Walking out of the dress in Sunday in the Park with George...wow.

javert's suicide.

little shop...when the plant came out on top of my head. dorky...i know..but it was neat :) (or maybe i was just so in love with hunter that anything was cool that night)

that cool effect that made people think Idina Menzel could sing.

i don't know..probaby the revolving stage in Les Mis. ? haha

"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman

[jonartdesigns]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#30

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:06pm

can someone describe the effect of the joe hardy transformation in the damn yankees revival please?

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

[RentBoy86]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#31

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:20pm

what's so amazing about the motorcycle in RENT? I only saw the tour so i dont remember any motorcycle. Thanks...

[munkustrap178]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#32

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:21pm

Nothing.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[BwayBaby18]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#33

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:26pm

I am in love with matthius202
"that cool effect that made people think Idina Menzel could sing."

anyways ...
1. Titanic the set was amazing
2. Playing the Zapruter film in Assassins
3. Bernadette Peters BELTING the crap out of Rose's Turn
4. Mimi on the railing in Rent (during Out Tonight)
5. The Fashion show in Aida

(I tried not to repeat some)

[pndmnd]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#34

Posted: 4/6/05 at 7:36pm

I agree with most of these. I also thought of one that isn't so much an "amazing" effect, but is definitely one of the most fun effects that I've seen: The bus/bicycle in All Shook Up. I know people knock it for being a Juke Box musical, but it really makes for a nice, fun, enjoyable evening, and I was smiling for the ENTIRE show!

[Dreamcatcher]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#35

Posted: 4/6/05 at 7:50pm

Defying Gravity scene- Wicked
Transformation scene- Beauty and the Beast
Lion King- puppetry illusions and other effects mentioned
The overall puppetry work (especially the finale)- LSoH
POTO- most of the effects

I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart. -Scrubs

[TheatreManiac]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#36

Posted: 4/6/05 at 8:25pm

Shakalaka Baby - Fountain in Bombay Dreams
Helicopter in Miss Saigon
Chandelier in Phantom

and I'd ditto most of the other mentioned as well. But, the fountain definitely tops the cake!

"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker" -- Willy Wonka

[cathywellerstein]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#37

Posted: 4/6/05 at 8:38pm

i second the request to know how the joe hardy transformation was done! did anyone see it, or know what happens? i'm curious cause i'm actually in the show now.

[Glebb]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#38

Posted: 4/6/05 at 8:56pm

Transformation back in time at the beginning of POTO
Amneris coming to life in AIDA
The quick change in DREAMGIRLS
The set for METAMORPHOSIS
The weeping wall - NINE

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

[jacobtsf]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#39

Posted: 4/6/05 at 9:14pm

All of LION KING
Most of LES MIZ
The first time I saw Defying Gravity
The Helicoptor in SAIGON
The puppetry in LSOH

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

[BroomstickBoy]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#40

Posted: 4/6/05 at 9:18pm

How was the Witch's transformation done in the Revival of Into The Woods??

I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)

[Unmasked05]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#41

Posted: 4/6/05 at 9:29pm

1.) The Phantom of The Opera
2.) Les Miserables
3.) Wicked
4.) Hello, Dolly !
5.) AIDA

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[BwayBaby18]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#42

Posted: 4/6/05 at 10:17pm

Okay so the witch transformation is done with a body double badly lip syncing to Vanessa Williams' voice..... Vanessa is behind a black sheet center stage wearign the cloak the ugly which goes behind the cloth Vanessa comes out coverd in the cloak stands on a little platform that hoist up out of the floor and rotates....then she throws the cloak off and then you have Vanessa Williams as the witch

[NYC_or_Bust]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#43

Posted: 4/6/05 at 10:21pm

I can't say JUST 5, so:


Beauty and the Beast (Transformation)

The Lion King (He Lives In You and Drying of the Lands)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (New modern at the end of the show)

GYPSY (the "footlights" that pop up out of the stage when June is performing)

Les Miz (The Baracade)

AMADEUS (The use of scrims)

42nd Street (THE STAIRS!!! AHHH I LOVED IT!)

1776 (the declaration scrim)

Peter Pan (audience flight)

GYPSY (when the bright light F*ckin BLINDS the audience right before tammy did Let Me Entertain you)

Damn it! I can't think of what show this next one is from, but it's probably my favorite of all of them. I saw this show where a girl started singing a song and then a spot came in on just her face (not including hair, LITERALLY just face), and then all the sudden it went BLACK (but the light was still on her face) and when she was done with the song, she had on a new wig, costume, new set was behind her, i mean it was ridiculous! seriously!

I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2

Updated On: 4/7/05 at 10:21 PM

[Unknown User]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#44

Posted: 4/6/05 at 10:35pm

no one has mentioned Golda's Balcony and that plane theyre projecting on the back wall- it looked like it was flying at the audience. it freaked ME out!

i think most of my other favorites were already mentioned.

[Unknown User]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#45

Posted: 4/7/05 at 1:24am

I had to laugh when we saw Phantom, and after ALL that pyrotechnic 'stuff', the biggest audience reaction was when Raul jumped into the 'lake' - which was a simple drop through a trap door. I thought that all theatre producers needed to look and learn what mattered!

[Thesbijean]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#46

Posted: 4/7/05 at 1:33am

Why is Defying Gravity here? A good effect makes you wonder how they did it, IMO.

[Sant]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#47

Posted: 4/7/05 at 2:48pm

1. The Phantom of the Opera -scene (POTO). It's a fantastic moment when those first burning 'candles' rise from the mist.

2. Defying Gravity (WICKED)- looked so cool.

3. Journey to the heaviside layer (CATS) - as a kid, seeing that car tire rise up for the first time was so amazing.

3. Overture (POTO) - watching that chandelier rise with the thundering overture playing is one of the best openings of a show.

4. Beast's transformation (BEAUTY & THE BEAST)

5. Two quick make-up changes on stage in DRACULA. The show itself was boring as he** but and the flying effects were used maybe a bit too much, but there were these two quick make-up that took place in front of the audience that were stunning!

[Sant]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#48

Posted: 4/7/05 at 2:51pm

"The only creative and effective use of projections I've seen was in Jane Eyre and the final moment of Sunset Boulevard. "

MR MATT: what kind of projections did they use (and how did they used them) in SUNSET BOULEVARD? I've never seen the show and I'm curious about the final scene.

[CapnHook]

re: Top 5 Coolest Effects#49

Posted: 4/7/05 at 2:59pm

"Everything in Phantom"

C'mon people, be specific.

Unmasked - what's with listing five shows? The question was what are the top 5 special effects you have seen, not shows.

Whether you liked the show or not, in SEUSSICAL, the backdrop/vortex effect making it seem like everything was sucked in, then BAM! Lights up! Welcome to the land of Seuss.

"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