HI
We are producing 'The Addams Family' and I want to fly Uncle Fester in a stable position so that he can interact with the moon.
Check out this video from the touring company;
Start 5:20 minutes into it.
He he obviously sitting on something but I wonder how it was done.
My first impression is that perhaps he he is strapped to a hardboard attached to his back with maybe a bicycle seat under his bum and perhaps a pipe attached to the hardboard and seat, juts out horizontally upstage and then turns 90 degrees and runs up into the grid. I'm just guessing here because there is nothing visible above him running upwards.
But he starts off stage right and then moves center so a pipe attached to a 'harness' running up into the flies would have to pendulate left to right as well as move up and down, presumably on a baton.
Mmm, then there's the 'flexible' legs illusion. Got to be dummy stand in legs but then where is the rest of his lower body? it's a good illusion and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to recreate that.
Looking forward to your input.
Chad
We are producing 'The Addams Family' and I want to fly Uncle Fester in a stable position so that he can interact with the moon.
Check out this video from the touring company;
Start 5:20 minutes into it.
He he obviously sitting on something but I wonder how it was done.
My first impression is that perhaps he he is strapped to a hardboard attached to his back with maybe a bicycle seat under his bum and perhaps a pipe attached to the hardboard and seat, juts out horizontally upstage and then turns 90 degrees and runs up into the grid. I'm just guessing here because there is nothing visible above him running upwards.
But he starts off stage right and then moves center so a pipe attached to a 'harness' running up into the flies would have to pendulate left to right as well as move up and down, presumably on a baton.
Mmm, then there's the 'flexible' legs illusion. Got to be dummy stand in legs but then where is the rest of his lower body? it's a good illusion and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to recreate that.
Looking forward to your input.
Chad