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| Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic | |
| Posted by: wizrdofoz27 11:20 pm EDT 06/17/22 | |
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| How did the effects in the first scene work at the Atlantic? Both the hanging and the set change | |
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| re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic | |
| Posted by: Guillaume 11:53 pm EDT 06/17/22 | |
| In reply to: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic - wizrdofoz27 11:20 pm EDT 06/17/22 | |
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| They did not do "the" set change at the Atlantic due to lack of fly space. | |
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| re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic | |
| Posted by: MonkeysAndWho 11:07 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic - Guillaume 11:53 pm EDT 06/17/22 | |
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| This is not accurate at all! At the Atlantic the jail cell took up maybe the front 3rd of the stage and looked like the entirety of the set. (I believe they did have a deep enough trap). When the set changed, since there was no wing space nor fly space, the first set somehow folded into stage right like origami, revealing the back part of the bar, and becoming the front part of the bar. It was like a Transformer! I actually thought it was much greater theater magic then simply flying the whole room off. | |
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| Oh, that sounds really cool | |
| Posted by: wizrdofoz27 04:42 pm EDT 06/24/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic - MonkeysAndWho 11:07 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
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| Thanks MonkeysAndWho! It's especially impressive when off-Broadway theaters achieve these. I still remember the eye-popping change midway through A Life at Playwrights Horizons, but that's a different story. | |
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| re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic | |
| Posted by: Guillaume 06:34 pm EDT 06/23/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic - MonkeysAndWho 11:07 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
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| What is "not accurate at all"? I said a) they did not do the set change as on Broadway or West End and b) the Atlantic has no fly space. | |
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| re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic | |
| Posted by: portenopete 01:20 pm EDT 06/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic - Guillaume 11:53 pm EDT 06/17/22 | |
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| Saw it at the Royal Court and was amazed that (relatively) small stage could achieve such a dramatic effect. | |
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| re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic | |
| Posted by: TowaOfTeraOnBway 07:31 pm EDT 06/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic - portenopete 01:20 pm EDT 06/18/22 | |
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| Since I didn't get to see it on Broadway, can someone please "spoil" the effect? Thanks! |
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| Spoilers below | |
| Posted by: wizrdofoz27 06:10 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Hangmen (spoilers included) and spoiler request for those who saw it both on Broadway and at the Atlantic - TowaOfTeraOnBway 07:31 pm EDT 06/19/22 | |
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| The first scene: in a cavernous hanging chamber, a man is put in a noose center stage and when the hanging is conducted, a trap door opens and he falls directly through it until the rope is tight. After the first scene, the entire cavernous room of the first scene, from the floor to the ceiling of the proscenium, rises until the floor of the chamber is above the proscenium to reveal the bar where most of the play is set. |
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| re: Spoilers below | |
| Posted by: TowaOfTeraOnBway 07:49 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
| In reply to: Spoilers below - wizrdofoz27 06:10 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
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| Thanks for the details. Sounds fascinating, I'd love to have seen it happen. | |
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| re: Spoilers below | |
| Posted by: mikem 10:20 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Spoilers below - TowaOfTeraOnBway 07:49 pm EDT 06/20/22 | |
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| It was really impressive. The person being hanged is not on a platform or anything, and it happens suddenly, so you have no idea that the trap door is going to open and the poor guy is going to disappear from view entirely. (Did the Atlantic have space under the stage enough to do that?) Then you have no idea this enormous set is going to be raised, and it's raised without the trap door being closed, so you can see the noose (now with no one in it) swinging below the trap door as the set is being raised to the sky. | |
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