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Post by sophizoey on Feb 21, 2018 1:46:09 GMT
I'm pretty easy to impress to be honest. You don't grand special effect to wow me. One of the stage effects that affected me most is probably during Empty Chair at Empty Tables when they cast the huge shadows of Marius' friends on the back of the stage. I know thats incredibly simple lighting but it gets such and emotion out of me.
As for astonishing and kind of 'how is that done'. Flying car at Chitty and I was about 8 years old. Don't think anything will beat that for me. (It's mot that astonishing but I was 8 so I would think it is)
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 21, 2018 9:23:33 GMT
As for astonishing and kind of 'how is that done'. Flying car at Chitty and I was about 8 years old. Don't think anything will beat that for me. (It's mot that astonishing but I was 8 so I would think it is) I disagree – it was astonishing! I saw Chitty some ten or twelve times from various parts of the house and I was always astonished and thrilled when the car flew. And at Dick Whittington at the same theatre a few months ago I was equally thrilled and astonished when the red bus flew, even though I was at the back of the stalls – and I am now eighty years of age! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 10:15:31 GMT
I'm fairly easy to impress too. At the beginning of 'The House of Bernarda Alba' at the Amleida a few years ago, there was a very simple effect when a curtain dropped so quickly to reveal the action which I thought was just smashing at the time.
Obviously, 'Mary Poppins' was glorious too. Laura Michelle Kelly flying into the roof, Gavin Lee dancing upside down, the house appearing and disappearing to reveal the rooftops.
There are so many . . . mem'ries, light the corners of my mind . . . .
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 11:02:42 GMT
I booked Bernarda Alba after being told how impressive that curtain bit was, and I was not disappointed.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 21, 2018 12:28:36 GMT
I saw Chitty at the Paladium and not impressed with the car (gasps)
But ...
The epic staircase in 42nd Street
Act 1 finale in any production of Sunday is amazing
The chair in Sweeney, everyone knows how it’s done and it always gets a titter
Phantom 20 odd years ago was amazing and I suspect it still is
The whale and turning into a boy in the NT’s Pinocchio
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Post by crabtree on Feb 21, 2018 22:17:28 GMT
ah yes, a few more trains - the hurtling towards the audience and then disappearing away train of the NT's Wild Honey, then the train in On the twentieth century was pretty amazing, and but then the magnificent train in the Kneehigh Brief Encounter was pretty thrilling. The Royal exchange did a pretty bizarre train in their Ghost Train a few years back. We could do a whole topic of trains in the theatre. And of course 42nd street features one.
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 22, 2018 0:32:16 GMT
I'm pretty easy to impress to be honest. You don't grand special effect to wow me. One of the stage effects that affected me most is probably during Empty Chair at Empty Tables when they cast the huge shadows of Marius' friends on the back of the stage. I know thats incredibly simple lighting but it gets such and emotion out of me. As for astonishing and kind of 'how is that done'. Flying car at Chitty and I was about 8 years old. Don't think anything will beat that for me. (It's mot that astonishing but I was 8 so I would think it is) Wow I have seen Les Miserables countless times and have never noticed that, I have to pay more attention next time I see it. However the lighting effects for the sewers are amazing as is the whole of Les Miserables. Similar effect down in Billy Elliot in the community hall, after he sees the ballet class and the keys are thrown over to lock up, he practices a few steps, with a giant silhouette of Billy on the back wall, very beautiful as is the whol of Billy Elliott. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 22, 2018 7:38:08 GMT
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Post by anita on Feb 22, 2018 10:14:38 GMT
The train in "Whistle down the wind".
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 22, 2018 12:25:24 GMT
The train in Woman in White ...
I was sat mid-front stalls and it was pretty effective there.
But NOT the staircase ....
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 22, 2018 13:01:45 GMT
The train in Whistle down the wind was a bit meh
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 16:06:21 GMT
The train in The Red Shoes ballet though! That scared the crap out of me!
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Post by crabtree on Feb 23, 2018 18:30:54 GMT
I saw the Brief Encounter train last night, and it is still so impressive, relying on absolute split second timing and precision. exciting stuff. The train back in NT's Frankenstein less exciting.
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Post by Rukaya on Feb 24, 2018 0:23:03 GMT
Continuing along this train of thought (lol), the train in the current Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! was an absolute delight to see!
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Post by anita on Feb 24, 2018 10:27:39 GMT
Love the horses pulling the cart in "Young Frankenstein".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 13:35:18 GMT
Love the horses pulling the cart in "Young Frankenstein". Oh, thinking of horses - the cats and the sheep in the RSC Don Quixote a couple of years ago! They were wonderful. |
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Post by andrew on Feb 24, 2018 21:43:16 GMT
Really loved the "Girls & Boys" effect today everything was a monochromatic blue, but a lighting effect gave it natural colours as required. Love to know how that is done. I loved that too, it was only the last time it happened that I spotted it as a projection, specifically I believe it's called "projection mapping". Really effective. |
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