Ok...I haven't seen it live yet...but just based on the Youtube videos...anyways my topic is about the effect in its entirety. First the lift is a new interesting approach when you think about it...it kind of fits with the mechanical aspects of the show (i.e. the gadgets)...but sometimes I think they took the easy way out. I mean sometimes it seems to be so obvious how she is flying w/ the big giant drape in the back that appears to be hiding something. This was my original thought until I saw my favorite Defying Gravity video from 11.5.05. Ok I think its the best technical video u can watch. The lights look amazing as well as the fog....and when it is like that all you can see is half of Shoshana's body which is cool because she really looks like she's flying and you can't even see the drape. Another cool thing is...I'm going to try to explain in lamens terms...the lights cast like these shadows on Sho's costume and it appears to be like her cape is much longer as well as her dress. That might sound a little vague...but theirs really no other way to explain it. Watch that video and you'll know what I'm talking about.

i think it's by far the best effect in the show. i always thought of the drape as her cape. i never really thought it was "hiding" anything until i saw that steph vid in chicago (may we thank the lord for that :mrgreen: ).

I've figured out why we can always see the mechanics behind Stephanie- she NEVER throws the cape over it like she's supposed to, exposing her back support

back support, schmack mcmort...psh...lol.

when i saw the tour,we had partial view,and could see the thingy Steph stepped into.

they can't do everything perfect. i think the flying looks the best in the tour. everytime i've seen the show it's different. the drape flows in different ways and for some reason it looks like the lights are in a different place then they were the time before even though it was in the same city. when i saw the show in ny i CLEARLY saw shoshana run back into the lift and whip the cape around. i only saw it on the tour once.

yeah, the tour's is better.... it goes into the air faster- which I like. I mean, if you were escaping people with pointy-sticks you wouldn't be flying slowly...

I just wish the people in the balcony couldn't see the pole-thingy behind Steph...

I can't wait to see the tour...I heard DG effects ARE amazing

The DG lighting is def better...

oh my god..i know! it's orgasmic :ha:

Well. I would have seen it, if I had gotten those WRETCHED Cincin. tickets. But Steph wasn't gonna be there anyway since she's gonna be gone by then.

I know this may sound stupid but I never knew that they start lowering the DG lift at the end of the song. Does anyone have any knowledge to share?

THANKS!!!!

they don't do that on the tour...i don't think. i've never seen it atleast. on broadway they do. it makes so sense. she's saying how no one is ever gonna bring her down then she starts decending? crazy if you ask me.

I think they started doing it on Sho's first night, because everyone thought it was a glitch until they did it again, and again....
it looks really stupid- the tour definetly has been sets and effects
(except for the Wizard's head base that the Wizard and MM ride in on at the end- it looks wierd on the tour, the base is only like 2 inch thick)

not sure if what i have to say has anything to do with this topic but i think there is a picture in the 'Grimmerie' of the lift device, it more of an illustration than a real picture.

No idea why...but it looks cool...I think if you fly you would stay at the same height as if you were, hmm let's say, standing on an invisible platform hidden by a long false skirt. I think you might bounce up and down slightly.

I love the effect on tour so much more than on Broadway! I love how the lift goes up so much quicker and the purple lights at the end! :mrgreen:

purple makes the levitating stand out more than green. green almost makes it blend with everything. TOUR ROCKS! :rock:

I love the lift.

when i have enough money i'm going to buy myself one then ride it all day. :mrgreen:

I can see it.

"ITS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

*lift*

*down*

"She had nothing to do with it! Im the one you want! Its Me! IIITTTSSS MMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

*lift*

*down*

"She had nothing to do with it! Im the one you want! Its me! ITS MEEE!!!!"

*lift*

*down*

"...Im bored"

:ha:

knowing my luck the lift would either A) break down while i was going up fall over C) go to high then fall apart D) break down all the time or E) never work :cry:

:ha:

It would be so cool to have the lift because then you could do pretty much the whole show becaue you could improvise the lift to fit Glinda's bubble. I want one!!

i talked to a girl who knew the guy who created it and she said it costs 6 figures....so that means $100,000 to $999,9999? that's a lot of money!

oh...that kind of stinks...I don't have that much money...

either do i. hopefully i will someday though.

I want the Wizards head

I wouldn't mind the beds from Popular...that would be cool...

that would be fun i suppose. i still want the DG lift!

Or a Wizomania suit. That would be so tight! :rock:

Or just the stage of the Gershwin...in my bedroom...that would be the coolest!! :rock:

Or the Phantoms boat! Or Enjolras' flag! Or the helicopter from Miss Saigon! Or Jesus from JCS as my slave!

whoa...that's crazy... :whoa:


how about the car from Ragtime?

I would love to ride on that thing - or the bubble.... IT MUST BE SO FUN! hahahaha

How do they control the wizards head?


And I HATE the bubble. I think it looks stupid and unconvincing.

That;s what I'd want...except mine would shoot fire instead of smoke...

At the Gershwin they have special effects people under the stage controling certain aspects of the show. I'm pretty sure they control that and the bubble and the set pieces that move on and off the stage with out human help.

It's a puppet run by a peddle and some knobs and stuff.... i got to touch it! It has to be my favorie prop in the show....I love puppets..
They have it wired to a sound computer that sets off sound effects with certain movements....like when the mouth moves, you always hear a clang, and a click with the eyebrows... I love the head!

I think they should sell little Wicked playsets like the stage and dragon, and then you could buy backdrops or setpeices.

Personally, I like the lighting in DG on broadway than I do the tour. I don't like the purple lights and the green and blue make the whole sequence stand out more. It gives me chills. :mrgreen:

i know! i want like a set model that you can actually play with, lol. we must email one of the producers with this idea! they will make even more money than they already do. :ha:

The Defying Gravity playset. Put Elphie in the harness and pull the switch and watch her ascend to the skies. Below,after pressing a button, the Chorus rsushes out. That would be sooo cool.

I saw a "Nutcracker" playset like that...it was so cool. The curtain would open and a song would play, and the sets would move...and the curtain would close again, and then, it'd open, and all the sets would be replaced with new ones...

It was like a $80 music box.

is this it?

http://www.mrchristmas.com/product.php?lin...amp;product=401

My grandmother owns that. I would give anything for a Phantom one!

With a rising/falling chandelier or huge staircase with colorful masquerading dancers! :mrgreen:

First of all, hydraulic lifts are not the easy way out- it would have been much cheaper to use a harness, which you would so obviously be able to see the ropes, and singing would be horrible. When I first saw the show I thought the effects were amazing, though I guess I was in rear mazzanine. Sho does a good job at hiding the support in the back. If you can come up with a better way for it to appear as if whoever is playing elphaba is flying, then you have reason to say that that was the easy way out. Otherwise, I think they did well with the lift.

i would play with a model of the wicked set all day long, like the phantom has his model of the opera house in the phantom of the opera movie. and i think for sure i would give my money to go up in the DG lift. it would be so amazing. if i had one i think i would manage to eat sleep and do my h/w in there cause i'm that cool.

I like the lift MUCH better on the tour, cuz the broadway is just sooooo slow. However, I think think DG needs to be green, not purple...Elphie is green, it's a green-power song. The purple's a cool idea, but I want green back.

Yep.



And, with the green- she kinda blends in. Purple is the contrast to green so she really stands out among the background- Amazoing (my new word made up of a typo)