fiddlerfan
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The Dream SceneI am currently in my school's production of Fiddler on the roof, and although i am not in the dream scene as i am playing Tzeitel.
Anyway how was Fruma sarah brought in? In ours they were thinking of having her on a flat low structure and wheeling her in. But our show is all next week and we havent done that so i think she is just going to run in or something.
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MsDivaKate
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For ours, she was on the shoulders of one of the tall guys in our cast and her dress covered both of them so she just appeared to be very tall.
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Buff Daddy
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In our production, Fruma Sarah started behind a tombstone and then raise high on a wire harness set up. It just raised her up and down - it didn't fly her across the stage at all.
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Cake_in_Song
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I was brought in on a ladder on wheels, pushed by a couple people wearing black, and held at the waist by another black clothinger, so I could wave my arms without falling. The ladder was covered in a sort of white, flowy fabric, so it looked like an extension of my (wedding) dress.
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superdave
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I am in a pretty huge community production of Fiddler, right now...I am very curious to see how we do the dream sequence...
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Theaterfan101
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she flew with lots of smoke. She started behind a tombstone bigger than us dead peoples stones and than flew up with smoke as two of the cast members pulled the stone back. It looked cool.
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mistocopat
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In Our Production she she popped up from behind the bed, scaring Tevye and Golde.
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momsterv
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When my daughter played Fruma Sarah a few years ago in a youth production, she was on top of a huge stepladder that was on wheels. 2 men pushed it in and it twirled all around the stage before coming to a stop just behind Tevye & Goldie's bed.
After she sang, it twirled back out while she shrieked her curse.
It was draped in some sort of dark fabric, so you couldn't see the ladder. She was sitting on the top, holding on with her legs.
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superdave
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| momsterv wrote: | When my daughter played Fruma Sarah a few years ago in a youth production, she was on top of a huge stepladder that was on wheels. 2 men pushed it in and it twirled all around the stage before coming to a stop just behind Tevye & Goldie's bed.
After she sang, it twirled back out while she shrieked her curse.
It was draped in some sort of dark fabric, so you couldn't see the ladder. She was sitting on the top, holding on with her legs. |
sounds a little dangerous
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Mark Walton
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I saw a production in which the "smoke" was actually a chemical fog, fired from a CO2 fire extinguisher in the wings. That's the kind with the big plastic horn, used to fight chemical fires.
For the movie, they must have used a wind machine to blow away the leaves and create the shriek of the wind. Ruth Madoc, the actress playing Fruma-Sarah, must have had a tremolo or some other such gizmo cut into her mike circuit; it amplified her already blood-curdling scream, one of the worst I have ever heard.
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Cake_in_Song
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| superdave wrote: | | momsterv wrote: | When my daughter played Fruma Sarah a few years ago in a youth production, she was on top of a huge stepladder that was on wheels. 2 men pushed it in and it twirled all around the stage before coming to a stop just behind Tevye & Goldie's bed.
After she sang, it twirled back out while she shrieked her curse.
It was draped in some sort of dark fabric, so you couldn't see the ladder. She was sitting on the top, holding on with her legs. |
sounds a little dangerous |
Sounds almost exactly like what my theatre did. The worst part isn't the danger; it's singing properly while sitting, with your legs unable to touch the ground. Having a firm connection to the earth through my feet and standing up are two of the major tenants of how I sing, so that was pretty tough.
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thinkofMerylStreep
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Originally ours was supposed to sit on a box and be wheeled around, but she ended up just running in with these little "dream minions" around her, kinda holding up her already-huge dress so that it looked bigger. Then she jumped on the bed and starting pulling Tevye's hair and stuff. Definetly the best number in the show to be in. 
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MimiRapp
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In mine, she hid behind a gravestone, then ran out. And we used strobe lights.
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star2ballie
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We're flying them above the audience.
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