What is a "No Fly Show"?
What is a "No Fly Show"?
Swing Joined: 9/6/11
What is a "No Fly Show"?#1
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:50am
Hi, this is my first post ever on Broadway World. I recently watched Seth Rudetsky interview Nicole Parker about her Defying Gravity debacle concerning her doing a "No Fly Show". I have never heard that term before and when I search for it I can't find what it means.
Seth Rudetsky's OBSESSED! feat. Nicole Parker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
What is a #2
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:55amIt refers to the fact that at the performance, the "Defying Gravity" lift malfunction, so Elphaba did not fly... "a no fly show."
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
What is a #2
Posted: 9/6/11 at 1:16amIt means that they use a cherry picker instead of a device that would make the witch fly and yell in unison. Therefore, all Wicked performances are "No Fly" shows. You're welcome.
What is a #3
Posted: 9/6/11 at 1:44amNo fly show = Elphaba's skirt does not go KA BOOM while she is screaming about being "high"
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
What is a #5
Posted: 9/6/11 at 2:11am
My favorite part of a NO FLY show at the WICKED, I saw one, is how the other actors on stage slowly duck to make it appear Elphaba is rising.
That's Show Biz.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST had no Beast fly shows when his rigging went awry. That was known as the Martha Graham, where the Beast had to do an interpretive dance to fill the music as he transformed.
AnD TITANTIC had Rubber Baby shows when the boy in the show (who had no understudy) was replaced by a rubber baby doll.
What is a #6
Posted: 9/6/11 at 7:53amA no fly show is when they spray a theatre with pesticides before a performance.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
What is a #7
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:34amOr when they don't let in people who are hip and down with it.
What is a #8
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:38amIt's a show where NATO planes fly overhead and bomb anyone who uses a cellphone.
What is a #9
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:39am^ Now THAT's for me!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
What is a #10
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:53amit's a show where everyone goes in with their zipper undone and acts like nothing is wrong. THATS showbiz.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
What is a #12
Posted: 9/6/11 at 6:12pmAbsalon, did you watch the video? Parker explains the entire thing, in great detail.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/05
What is a #13
Posted: 9/6/11 at 11:26pmWait, how did the boy the Titanic get replaced by a rubber baby? The baby tracks on stage with a boat at the end of the opening number?
Swing Joined: 9/6/11
What is a #14
Posted: 9/7/11 at 3:16amYeah I watched it. I just misunderstood what she was saying. I actually feel really stupid now. Either way, thanks for the responses everyone! Glad to be here!
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