musikal_geek
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The sinkingI have never seen this show, heard the music, looked at a script, or anything at all so I'm just taking a shot in the dark.
How is the sinking done? Is it just talked about or is there an actual visual effect?
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rytoast25
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ditto
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Tinker Rigger
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With a lot of work, and a few hydraulic assisted platforms, yes, you do get to see the sinking.
Unless you're like the cheap b@stard producer who tried to hire me to do the sinking and insisted on seeing the full size ship onstage. Then you get jack! (complete. idiot.)
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ALoneWanderer
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I've heard there were numerous occasions on broadway where the sinking didn't work properly.
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GungaDin
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The sinkingNot when I say it. It worked wonderfully well.
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Tinker Rigger
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The sickest thing is, I was in a house in Arkansas a few years ago for an Oz, and Titanic had just been there and crashed three linesets! Thanks, jackholes!
I HeArTE Titanic!
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Salome
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if done right the sinking works fine. we only had the sinking happen in the scene with Andrews in his steroom. and the audience was quite impressed.
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Sweeney Hyde
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I have thought about this many times and wondered...couldn't just make a giant half titanic made of fabric? inside the ship you could have some sort of mechanism that slowly collapses from the bottom up. Put some fog around it and...bam! Instant shipwreck. The half ship would be placed center stage with the tip up towards the ceiling.
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Tinker Rigger
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Uhm, you do realize that Titanic was 990 feet long and over 70 feet from keel to top of the forward funnel, right? So even a "half" version is 440 ft long, or 40 ft wide, or 35 feet tall...and god would I hate to be the poor bastard to have to sweep and mop a stage like that without a dozen other hands.
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dantheman
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Ummm...Are you joking, or what? 
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Sweeney Hyde
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| Tinker Rigger wrote: | | Uhm, you do realize that Titanic was 990 feet long and over 70 feet from keel to top of the forward funnel, right? So even a "half" version is 440 ft long, or 40 ft wide, or 35 feet tall...and god would I hate to be the poor bastard to have to sweep and mop a stage like that without a dozen other hands. |
When I said, "half the ship" I meant half of the model that you would use for the sinking. Of course the ship wouldn't be a full sized replica...use some common sense.
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ramsey
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yes - i agree ----- the set is on hydraulics and slants to one side during the sinking - and looks really effective......
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santtu
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| ramsey wrote: | | yes - i agree ----- the set is on hydraulics and slants to one side during the sinking - and looks really effective...... |
Yes, the two-storey stage wide platform slants to one end of the stage with ensemble members on the top level clinging to the railings, each other etc... Mr Andrews sings his solo part on the lower deck as the stage starts to tilt and things in his room start to glide across the 'room'.
Once it is tilted to the maximum angle, there's a backdrop behind the set which is pulled upwards really fast which creates the effect of the ship going down. And suddenly a black drop is pulled up in front of the set and the scene changes to the survivors' song on Carpathia.
Doesn't sound that impressive but it actually was!
edit: That's the way they did it on Broadway... don't know about later productions...
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