Blithe Spirit
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Topic: Blithe Spirit
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Blithe Spirit
Date Posted: 8/17/04 at 10:34am
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Hello...gathering information here. Our group will be producing Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit in the fall. We have many ideas, of course, but I'm hoping other groups that have done the show might pass on their ideas on special effects, etc that might be helpful. Thank you in advance.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 9/13/04 at 9:52am
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For the final scene in the production I directed, I had a technical director sent from heaven who built me a grand piano from light plywood which had a trick leg to fall on cue, causing all the prop items to fall into the floor and a large pre-broken & lightly reglued vase which seemed to always shatter on cue. Other effects were a large swaying chandelier, a fireplace mantel which also fell into the floor into several pieces throwing pictures etc into the floor. At back center stage. a columned opening had one column crash to the floor, then a set of french doors stage left, opened and closed repeatedly on their own as a large fan blew through the opening whipping at the drapes and a smoke machine poured fog onto the set. Talcum powder & fake bricks & plaster fell from the flyspace. Add lightning/thunder effects and sound and it all comes together. The set was thoroughly "destroyed" in less than a minute. The audience loved it as did the cast.
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