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Post by StageFiyero on Jul 12, 2004 8:36:11 GMT -5
How does the set come in and out on it's own? Is there a track?
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Post by Popular Glinda on Jul 12, 2004 10:43:49 GMT -5
I'm not sure about the Wicked set, but most set pieces can't move independantly...if the ones in Wicked can, I'm sure there must be some real magic going down...but anyway. At The Childrens Theatre, where I do most of my shows (it won a Tony for Best Regional Theatre last year, woot!) there are tracks and then the crew folk push or pull the set from backstage. In one show, everything was on tracks, and it looked really cool. AND we had slip stages (parts of the stage that move back and forth--anyone who has the DVD/video of the obc of Into the Woods, when the stage moves with people on it, thats what it is)
So yeah, hope that helps!
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Post by StageFiyero on Jul 12, 2004 11:02:27 GMT -5
Okay, I've been in 30 shows... I know that set doesn't move independently and it doesn't take much of a genious to figure that out. What I want to know is if there's a track or if it involves ropes and pullies or what.
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Post by Popular Glinda on Jul 12, 2004 15:42:24 GMT -5
Okay, I've been in 30 shows... I know that set doesn't move independently and it doesn't take much of a genious to figure that out. What I want to know is if there's a track or if it involves ropes and pullies or what. Well duh, but anywho. Yeah, ropes, pullies, rods, poles. Pretty much anything you can pull or push with. You know. I mean, after all you've done 30 shows  |
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Post by StageFiyero on Jul 12, 2004 16:15:17 GMT -5
Deep breaths... deep breaths... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10... keep cool.
Most of the time, for off-Broadway shows, set changes are made in black-outs and if they aren't, the techies moving them are hidden behind the bulk of the set. The benches however couldn't have hid a techie, nor could the beds. Poles and ropes aren't visible and it seemed as though the pattern of the floor was not the path the set took to get to the places they were to stop, so if there is a track, which has still not been confirmed, it's very cleverly concealed.
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Post by SugarTherapy on Jul 13, 2004 6:54:20 GMT -5
They're computer-operated and run on tracks in the stage. Hence the occasional set mess-up -- those are computer glitches.
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Post by N0tThatGirL213 on Jul 26, 2004 14:23:50 GMT -5
Yay for someone finally asking that! I've been wondering about that forever...
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