| re: Beauty and the Beast / Transformation Scene | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 05:14 pm EDT 08/30/20 | |
| In reply to: Beauty and the Beast / Transformation Scene - BroadwayPhan 04:00 pm EDT 08/30/20 | |
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| I don't know but here's a little google research. Susan Egan, the original Belle, told an interviewer: “I was part of the mechanics of it. Even though I understood the slight of hand that was happening for the audience, from where I was sitting—it was before GoPros existed, but I wished I was wearing a GoPro so the audience could see that even from my point of view, it was spectacular. It’s a combination of dramatically what’s happening in the moment, of the mechanics of this ingenious David Copperfield effect (it was his designer who created it), and the music and how Michael Kosarin arranged it to peak at the right time. We had something like 10 Vari-Lites; no Broadway show had a Vari-Lite in those days. It can turn 360 degrees and change colors through computers instead of through gels. Before that, lights were static. At the perfect second, all these Vari-Lites did a 360 rotation and changed colors from different colors to white. The second that all 10 of them were shining at the audience, blinding them for a microsecond to facing all on the Beast, who is now the Prince. In the second that everyone was blinded, that’s when everything was happening. That’s when I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. That’s when Terry was doing what he was supposed to be doing. That’s when mechanics were doing what they were supposed to be doing. It all happened in that second.” Theatrecrafts.com writes: "The transformation effect from Beast back to man involved a lift mechanism built into the castle truck, a little stage magic, and some spectacular lighting effects." Flying by Foy says Disney consulted them for the flying of some part of the Beast at the transformation. So I'm guessing that either the Beast costume (Foy mentions a "custom aluminum harness" was flown during the lighting change, leaving the Prince alone. Or maybe a beast actor was flown and the prince pops up from a star trap. |
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