Your "How do they do that?!" moments- Page 2
Your "How do they do that?!" moments
#25re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 8:21pmI realize that it's behind the umbrella...but man, that's a quick change nonethelss. Is it put on over the other dress? Doesn't seem like it. Hmm. I'm seeing it August 25th, I will figure it out...somehow...
Tag
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#26re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 8:27pmOf course it is over the other dress.
#27re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 8:28pm
I'm just asking because the dress she puts on seems relatively smaller...Sh I'm not as idiotic as you may think.
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 08:28 PM
#28re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 8:58pmOne particular thing for me was the scene changes in Faith Healer. I think I have them figured out, but they were ingenious.
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#29re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 8:58pmI agree the Dracula one! it was awesome. I like Javert's suicide too. I was 8 so I didn't get it. now I do.
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#30re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:01pmRegarding Dracula: if you're talking about the scene where he walks into the pit, it is a trapdoor. It opens and he just plops in, landing on, more or less, a giant pillow.
BNN
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/05
#31re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:06pm
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She's 73 (I think) has screws in one leg from a car accident and she still dances just as good as she used to.
Plus in Chicago when people don't realize that Mary Sunshine is a man. How could you not tell?
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#32re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:06pmThe scene in The Scarlet Pimpernel when it appears Percy gets his head chopped off by the Guillotine -- only to reappear unscathed.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#33re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:07pmThe Transformation in Beauty and the Beast and the Costume Changes in Drowsy.
#34re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:21pm
The scene in The Scarlet Pimpernel when it appears Percy gets his head chopped off by the Guillotine -- only to reappear unscathed.
i never could firgure it out either, is it like magic where your attention is somewhere else?
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#35re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:34pm
*Spoiler*
Sutton Costume Changes.
If you go to my photo bucket look at photos 1-4.
Picture 1. That is the first thing that is put on.
Picture 2. The pink dress is worn over the red and under the yellow. In pick 3 you see how it is baggy above the waist, that is where the "skirt" part of the pink dress sits. Look at the inside of the umbrella. See how one side is darker that is where the yellow dress is. If you look directly across from it you can see the openning where she slides the dress in.
Picture 3. The man behind sutton un zips her as the umbrella comes down and undoes her magnets. She pulls the dress over her head and shoves it in the pouch.
Picture 4. You can see the magnets at the shoulder straps.
At the beginning of "Show Off" Sutton wears the white, the yellow, the pink, the red. This whole effect is a costumer thinking on his toes.
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#36re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:39pmJames2- I TOTALLY forgot about Faith Healer. One second the set was one thing, and then 3 seconds later BAM. Totally different. How do you think they did it? They couldn't have been on some sort of rail system, seeing as how the set seemed to be scattered around the stage, not just in one area... Updated On: 8/13/06 at 09:39 PM
#37re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:55pm
The scene in The Scarlet Pimpernel when it appears Percy gets his head chopped off by the Guillotine -- only to reappear unscathed.
i never could firgure it out either, is it like magic where your attention is somewhere else?
On one of those magic tricks revealed shows the "masked magician" showed how the trick is done. It had to do with the cloak he was wearing, a dummy, a trap door, and a fake head! I wish I could remember exactly how it was done! It was amazing when it all happened together onstage though!
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#38re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 10:18pmPractically everything Michael Crawford did in "Barnum"!
#39re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 10:32pm
the witch's transformation in into the woods and the beast's in beauty and the beast (but vanessa williams explained to me how they did it lol)
chopping off the body parts in spamalot
hmmm that's all i can think of, but i'm sure i had others lol
#40re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/13/06 at 10:37pmWhen I did Beauty and the Beast we had a double and the actual Beast would change makeup and costume behind a fairly large tower and do his lines from there.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#41re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 1:13amThe Lord of the Rings has many 'how did they do that?' moments. Come see it before September 3rd!
#42re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 1:30amI was astounded by Chip in BATB when he is on the tray.
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lifeisacabaret
Leading Actor Joined: 4/17/06
#43re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 4:55amTag- what are you talking about? Its already closed. In June.
#44re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 7:31amboth of the witches transformations (obc and revival) got me. though i didnt really like the revival vannessa williams transformation was just like ...woah. then my friend whose a dresser showed us how they did it backstage.
LI Larry
Stand-by Joined: 7/25/06
#45re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 7:38ami actually always wondered how Bernadette transformed into the attractive witch. Never occured to me that the ugly witch was a double. The only other thing that ever made me wonder was how Barbara Walsh used to rip the apron in the same spot every performance during "I'm Breaking Down" in Falsettos. I asked her one day. It was velcro which I'm sure everyone else knew but somehow never occured to me.
#46re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 8:42amIn the musical 'Our House' in London, the narrative splits Sliding Doors style into two different strands - the lead wears white in one and black in the other. There were several points where the narrative crossed over - at the end of the first act when you thought he was on a bridge high above the stage he appeared down stage. In the second act, he disappeared behind a couple of umbrellas for literally two seconds and changed from a white tracksuit into a black suit. Both switches were seamless and often got applause.
Tag
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#47re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 1:24pmlifeisacabaret it 150% did not close in June, it is still running till Sept 3rd.
ChristineAngel
Chorus Member Joined: 11/9/05
#48re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:30pm
The transformation in Beauty and the beast.
I <3 it, it is soo cool.
and when I was younger the phantom disappearing into the chair, now I know well I knew since like last year 
#49re: Your 'How do they do that?!' moments
Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:44pm
Tag is right, LOTR is running until September 3rd.
I agree with "Show Off" changes, although they've been explained now.
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