Magic Carpet Ride Aladdin Broadway

The broadway version of disney s aladdin has almost as many special effects as you d find in a major hollywood movie.

Magic carpet ride aladdin broadway.

Here s how the show s creators pull off the magic in real time. The carpet is a really interesting totally custom piece. 6 12 17 at 7 09pm so this is my theory and it s pretty valid there is a product we use for projecting holograms we call musion foil. Magic carpet 12 posted.

It s not often a writer gets to travel on aladdin s magic carpet but that s one way to describe my latest trip. A whole new world doesn t reveal how the magic carpet illusion in this tony award winning show is actually achieved well that s something you re just going to have to work out on your own. Disney s aladdin floats into the saenger. People have wondered and questioned how the magic carpet works and fly s somehow seamlessly on its own with a smooth performance on aladdin the musical and m.

Ainsley melham marina pires photos provided by disney theatrical. Basically there are wires on the 4 corners and at the top the winch assembly spins each wire in a little circle maybe a foot diameter. It s a whole new world and a whole new season as the 2018 19 broadway in new orleans series comes soaring in this week on. They spin the wires really fast enough to trick the eye.

Ainsley melham marina pires will take a magic carpet ride into aladdin on broadway. By andy lefkowitz feb 11 2020. I don t work on aladdin but i m friends with a few of the riggers.