Trap Doors — Page 2

Here's some nice Trap Door Porn. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21UqRW7NkV4

Morosco, I've seen that video before. It's pretty interesting.

Dance of the Vampires (German production) staircase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et-3rTZqKu4

Updated On: 3/18/16 at 07:10 PM

^View from that trap

The traps in Phantom are magical. But the best use of traps I've seen are in the current Broadway production of Fun Home.

SPOILER IF YOU HAVENT SEEN THE SHOW:







The one scene at the end where all of Alison's memories start to go away by pieces of the set going under the stage by the multiple trap doors on the stage had me shaking in my seat.

You mention "lack of trap doors" as though a trap door should b included in a design by default, which confuses me.

There are an infinite number of factors at play.

Broadway stages are bare. There are no traps / elevators. It all has to be designed and engineered and structurally safe for the venue. That requires a lot of work and a lot of money, then you have to worry about the logistics of using it... Getting things on and off, opening and closing - many directors dislike the void created by an open real before and after its usage. It also takes up valuable space in theatre that could be used for musicians, actors, wardrobe and hair... You have to dedicate a certain amount of space for people and things backstage.

When the show closes, you also have to remove everything and restore the theatre... In the case of a trap, that means a lot more work.

as far as recreating for a tour, you would be surprised how often that ISN'T a consideration. But they will find alternate ways to make it happen on the road without a trap, just as if the producer had banished them from the broadway design.

Yes, that was Macavity. A Star Trap is a wonderful thing in the few instances when its use is appropriate :)

Thankfully this doesn't happen to James Iglehart at the New Amsterdam

Dance of the Vanderpire video didn't work.

Whats a star trap re: Aladdin

"I would imagine that things like Raoul jumping into a trap in Phantom requires extra pay to the actor for the risk."



I am fairly certain there is hazard pay for such things. Traps can be extremely dangerous. Nancy Opel was injured in one, as was an actor in Dracula - and of course, there was the actor in Spider-Man who suffered a partial amputation of his foot. Trap door automation trumps skin and bone every time).



Because of this, I had a hard time watching Michael Cerveris wend his way around the open trap doors towards the end of FUN HOME. If their intent was to create tension, it worked. For me, for all the wrong reasons - I was personally concerned for his safety. It took me right out of the play.

I remember Lesli saying in her vlogs for Matilda that all the desks and traps had safety and censors. If there's a hand or foot in the way of the desk it doesn't go down. Since there are children in the show it's a bigger deal.

At the LA stop of Jersey Boys, Bob Gaudio fell through the trap. Show had to stop and the understudy took over, if I remember right.