Set Design and Construction: Melting the Witch

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Melting the Witch

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Topic: Melting the Witch

Posted By: Suzanne
Subject: Melting the Witch
Date Posted: 6/27/07 at 10:21pm

Our theater company is putting on the Wizard of Oz in September. Can anyone help us "melt the witch" and get the Wizard up in a balloon? We have a regular grammar school stage with no flyspace. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

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Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:23am

Hey Suzanne... This one has been asked before, and fairly recently.. Do a search within this site on wizard of oz or witch, I think you will get lots of helpful info...

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Marty W

"Till next we trod the boards.."

Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:27am

Here is the link to the melting discussion... There are many other links on Oz stuff, so browse around...

http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2260&KW - http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2260&KW =

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Marty W

"Till next we trod the boards.."

Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:45am

With regard to the balloon, Trinity Rep, a great company out here in Rhode Island used a balloon in their adaptation of A Christmas Carol this year, and even though they had plenty of fly space, they rolled it out onto the stage with a mechanical puppet flying horse attached to the front, although on here it sounds kind of hokey it looked beautiful, becuase of its construction of antique silk and white and gold basketry, it was definitly a sight to behold, along with some smoke underneath it and the gentle flapping of the winged horse, it appeared as if it were flying!

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Posted By: Suzanne
Date Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:16pm

Thanks, Marty and all,

I went to the link and got not only ingenious but funny stuff.