I've run into this a couple of times, and luckily have been able to reason with people how different rock climbing and flying people in the theater are. However, a question to all of those who are, like me, technical directors of performing arts spaces. How do you handle the liability when the board of directors insist that this will be done no matter your protestation? Can you go on record with a statement that you think it's a bad idea? And, yes, sometimes, in the past, my Board of Directors have gotten way too involved with the day to day running of this place... That's the main reason why we are on our 3rd Executive Director in 5 years...
Rock climbing gear can't do 1/6th of what a professional Foy rig can do,
Agreed. I have rock climbed quite a bit, and the gear is excellent for doing many things: climbing up rock faces and going back down again being pretty much the things.
That's my story. I stay out of that nonsense as much as I can and I cringe at this summer when Peter Pan is being done at a local college with kids being flown around. They are supposedly having ZFX come in and do all the work. but with kids, I still dread the thought of it.
On May 23, 1999, Hart fell to his death in Kansas City, Missouri during the Over the Edge pay-per-view event.[46] Hart was in the process of being lowered via harness and grapple line into the ring from the rafters of Kemper Arena for a booked Intercontinental Championship match against The Godfather. In keeping with the Blazer's new "buffoonish superhero" character, he was to begin a dramatic entrance, being lowered to just above ring level, at which time he would act "entangled", then release himself from the safety harness and fall flat on his face for comedic effect—this necessitated the use of a quick release mechanism. It was an elaboration on a Blue Blazer stunt done previously on the Sunday Night Heat before Survivor Series in 1998.[44] Many suspected the harness was made for lowering small tools to carpenters, not for any human being. Hart fell 78 feet (24 m) into the ring, landing chest-first on the top rope, approximately a foot from the nearest turnbuckle, throwing him into the ring.[47]
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