Top 5 Coolest Effects- Page 4

Posted: 7/28/06 at 9:30pm

I WAS ONE OF THEM!!!!!!! IS THIS LILY?!

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 9:30pm

Wow! What an old thread!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 9:31pm

OMG, yes! How did you know?

Posted: 7/28/06 at 9:31pm

it's fate

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 9:34pm

Haha

[Kevinoes]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 10:14pm

How about the pool in AIDA or the transition scene from the museum to Nubia?

And yes, Defying Gravity rocks my socks.

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 10:17pm

I loved the Aida pool and I have to admit I was very impressed with Vanessa Williams transformations in Into the Woods...both of them.

[rose_pearl]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 10:25pm

Didn't the Titanic set have a lot of problems?

I liked Beauty's transformation [or rather, the Beast's], Lion King [Circle of Life], Defying Gravity [I'm sorry, but it is very cool], POTO [Chandelier, the mirror in Angel of Music]...can't think of another...

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 10:27pm

Wicked-When the big light dome comes on in Dancing Through Life and Defying Gravity of course.

Phantom- The begenning when the Chandelier rises. The smoke and the rising candle's in the title song and the mirror.
Updated On: 7/28/06 at 10:27 PM

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 10:28pm

rose_pearl that was the only part that woke me up from Titanic

[xbRadxx]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 12:34am

1) When Dracula just drops into the floor.
2) The begining scene in Dracula when the coachman just launches up into the air.
3) In Phantom when Raul[sp?] dives into the stage.
4) In Aida during the pool scene they make it look like two people are swimming.
5) The part at the end of Dracula when he turns to ashes

[Jesus]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 12:43am

The I'm Changin' quickchange in Dreamgirls.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 12:54am

So simple and obvious, but I have to say one of my favorites is the hat in The Light in the Piazza. It got me every time.

~Steven

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 12:55am

1. Titanic
2. Assassins - The projection on the shirt
3. Sweet Charity Revival - When that painting lit up the audience went wild. (I saw Christina's first performance and i didn't even see it coming. I was sitting front row dead center in the mezz and i almost peed with glee.)
4. Drowsy Chaperone - When the bed fell down as an elegant one. And When Trix's plane comes up.
5. Cabaret revival - When the back wall lifts up to reveal the cast.

[ErikInTheCity]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 12:56am

I actually like the transformation of the Enchantress in Beauty and the Beast. . .possibly even better than the Beast's. A very quick bolt of lightning and then bam. . .she's airborne.

I also saw a production of Wizard of Oz a million years ago, directed by Phil McKinley (Boy from Oz) which included Miss Gulch transforming into the Wicked Witch of the West in midair during the tornado. Even bicycle changed to broom. Amazing. . .

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 1:22am

Some definite favorites/recent favorites:

"Defying Gravity" in Wicked is just awesome in the actual meaning of the word, regardless of how overplayed the show becomes.

All Shook Up's cute FX - the bike/bus and the motorcycle. They were cute. The show was cute. "My name is broadway_show_fan and I am an All Shook Up addict."

The Chitty car. Wow. Just, wow.

For those who saw it, the Philly Production of Bright Lights, Big City's ending sequence with the projection of key words from the show onto the curtain, the decoration with those jewels. It doesn't sound as great as I think it was when I saw the show.

And perhaps the top of my list:
Anyone else see Awake and Sing! and it's gorgeous set? I could've watched just the dry tech of that show. (Warning: Plot Spoiler) Anyway, at the end of that show, the already beanstalk-tall Pablo Schreiber standing down center as the remainder of the set dissappears down and he appears to stand even taller. It just made the point of the entire show and was technically gorgeous. Quite a simple effect but beautifully done.

[exedore]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 1:55am

It's late, I'm too lazy to explain in detail...

1. The paratroopers in TOMMY
2. The laser wall (and really all the lighting) in BARBARELLA
3. The moving bridge in the German STARLIGHT EXPRESS
4. The sinking stage in ELISABETH
5. I'll give this one to the mirror sequence in DOTV.

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 3:47am

Javert's suicide
The part of Scarlet Pimpernell when Percy is in the guillotine (sp?) and you think he's gotten his head chopped off but it's not really him.
Elphaba's flight
The helicopter in Miss Saigon
And all of POTO

[Sant]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 5:53am

"4~The enchantres transformation in Beauty and the Beast...I still don't get it "

I think they have used an old "trick" to this one: a dancer is wearing a "double-sided" dress and for the first part she is standing on stage with her feet AND hands on the floor with the old beggar woman 'dummy' attached to her waist. As the change comes, the dancer stands up and the hem of her dress (which has covered her head and hands so far) flips over to cover the old woman dummy which is now hanging against her feet under her dress which has been made long enough to cover the dummy together with the lighting.

I'm not 100% sure they did it like this, but having seen this trick being used a lot I assume this or a variation of this has been used in the BATB's transformation.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:21am

The Balroc @ the end of act 1 LOTR. An Eticket ride!

[AlmostFamous]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 10:14am

1. Phantom of the Opera - the whole thing
2. Aida - the swimming pool effect
3. WIW - the train projection!
4. Wicked - Defying Gravity
5. Les Mis - Javert's suicide

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 10:31am

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang offers two amazing moments:

The car and the Childcatcher's final exit

Mary Poppins offers two as well:

Bert's walk up the proscenium and Mary Poppins' final exit

Wicked:

Defying Gravity and the freed monkies.

[greeneyed_one]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 1:50am

The complete set transformation in B"arefoot in the Park". A plain unpainted apartment into a fully wallpapered and furnished one in only a few minutes. Very cool- the only time I have seen a set change get applause.

[Parks]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:12am

Nobody said the costume change in Drowsy Chaperone under the umbrella...

I've watched the Tony Awards performance atleast 20 times and I am STILL stumped. Absolutely amazing.

[greeneyed_one]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:19am

Completely agree Parks. I think Sutton must use her awesome talent to defy both physics and time in order to make such a quick change :)

[EDIT] I'm gald I'm in a place where there are other people who tape/rewatch the Tony Awards. Updated On: 7/31/06 at 02:19 AM