Beauty & Beast Rose

[bboru]

Im a stage hand looking for some help in the beauty and the beast play, We are having some time with the rose.

Any help would be wonderful

[cdub260]

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[Ekirkpatrick11]

If you are running the rose from Below the stand itself you have a few options, you can you a solenoid type system where u push the rosh petal out a cylinder, this is especially handy id you need more than one petal to fall. You can also use an electromagnet but realize that if your rose is part of a moving platform you have the possibility of the rose petals falling off in set manipulation. If you are running it remotely you can use a remote controlled clamp that simply releases the rose petal when you want it to.. if you need more ideas just let me know ... hope this helped

[DaveySimps]

You can also rent the unit. That is what we ended up doing. It even has some lighting (I think MR16) built into it. It was a nice effect. If you are interested, feel free to PM me, and I will dig up the contact info from where we got it from.

~Dave

[Brandofhawk]

Along the same lines, my high school is doing Beauty, we have the rose suspended in the plasitc tube (rather then glass.. although the plastic was 2 times as much!). The petals are connected with velcro, and have a fishing line attached so that when the time comes the petal is just pulled off by a tech.
Our director worked in a broadway production of Beauty and said thats how it was done (i think there might have been more to it...)

I would like a way to control it from the sidelines, any ideas/sugestions of how to? (sometimes you just dont have enough techs)

[Grommet]

Worked with a high school production for the same show and the rose was just a projection on the side walls.

[firewater88]

We did this show a few years back. The rose was on a pedestal under a glass dome. The trick was using long bicycle brake lines (or similar), one per pedal that you want to fall off. Attach the inner line to a rose petal and somewhere off stage, pull that line and the petal falls off. The bunch of lines going to the rose was wrapped in floral tape (green) and became the stem. It worked very well and the audience loved it.

[Jescalese]

My theater did beauty a few years back, and we rented the set from zfx. they had a cool set where the west wing was a octagon shaped platform that was 6 feet high, and stairs goin up to the table where the rose was under glass. under the platform was a little work room where a stage had was under, to drop the rose and spin the west wing... it spun around 360 dagrees. the table that the rose was on has clear plastic rods that went from the petals that fell, down to the stage hand under it. the stage hand would have the drop the rose, and the butt end of the rod had 2 shelves that it would rest, one that kept the rose up by the bud, and one where it rested after it fell... it looked great, we also had a wireless camera hidden behind a column so stage hand could see how the rose was falling to make it look real

[JohnHartman]

Not to Necropost... however I just want to Thank everyone for the ideas here and in the other "Rose" posts....

I was able to pull this together today and felt like sharing..





Don't know if I am keeping the LED uplights and embedding them or losing them all together.

Thanks for the great ideas.

[2mojo2]

I did something very similar with a single halogen puck light.
The problem I ran into was that the cheaper "silk" roses on the market are actually synthetic fabric.
Under heat, they get sticky and the petals can get welded together.
Real silk won't do this.