Fantasmic Rehearsals

Sorry it's been a while since I've updated this site. I've been a bit busy with rehearsals for Fantasmic! Here are a few photos from the rehearsals with the new lighting I helped install for the show. I do apologize that the photos are a little blurry but I was taking them without a tripod, without a flash and while I was running a large super trouper followspot.

This is of the dragon sequence...it has changed a bit since this photo...too bright in the photo...darker now which is much better.


Programming the opening sequence...we added some star gobos in the end...




The Evil Queen at her cauldron cooking up some mischief for Mickey Mouse.


It's soooo sad...this sequence is so bright now that the petals are infested with aphids (otherwise known as "performers") and the snake called Kaa has mutated into a centipede and now has a couple dozen spindly legs that sprouted out the bottom of it's belly.


This looks weird....mostly because the lights you see should be hitting the Mark Twain River Boat...but this nights rehearsal we did not use any of the boats or the barges...so the lights glanced over the river with nothing there...rather amusing really.
Opening sequence...Mickey makes the water fountains come alive. What an imagination he has!


The Evil Queen calling on the Magic Mirror to tell her how beautiful she is. Notice the lighting bolts...
The most evil of all...Maleficent! She appears in red flame...exits in green flame...flies into the air and then metamorphosis into...
Bucky the wonder Dragon!
Pretty little flowers.














Where pink elephants dance the night away.













This is one look of the opening sequence...but not quite the final look. Take away the star gobo on the mouse from the follow spot and we'll call it good.

The show re-opened on March 7th, 2008. The crew does NOT like the way the show looks now. To us it looks like the show is now played under colored work light...but the guests seem to like it and I guess that is what matters.



I promise I will post again soon about my trip to Prague. I've been so busy that I just haven't had the time to do much. Just work and sleep and doctor's appointments (I'm back seeing my knee specialist for my knee injury that happened at work. He has put me back into physical therapy.).