Originally Posted By TarzanRocked99-06 So let me get this right... they are replacing Taran Rocks with its high energy ariel stunts and roller skating thrills with a puppet show musical from a movie that had no songs to begin with. That is depressing as it gets.
Originally Posted By kennect Tarzanrocked, whatever your name....Here again we have a new member complaining...I guess I am just getting old and out of the loop....I, like Labuda, just didn't care for this show....But I am still baffled by the idea they continue the so awful Beauty and the Beast show at the studio park....While Tarzan Rocks doesn't do a thing for me I would rather see Beauty at the studio park vanish before this show...
Originally Posted By Labuda "You obviously did not see the same show hat everyone else did as it pulled in very high attendance numbers everyday. The show was very unique and the use of the live musicians over prerecorded music was excellent. Great show hands down." Well, if I didn't see the same show as everyone else, then please explain to me why this is the only show I've ever seen people walk out of midway through. This show was crap. "The musicians were excellent, but I thought the singers were inconsistent - some really kicked, while some were more generic." I found the energy level of the band and singers to be very flat. The guitarists especially had no flair or stage presence. Drummer was great, though.
Originally Posted By Labuda Yay for Nemo! Looking forward to seeing it when I'm at WDW in November! WDWtechie - would love to hook up with you & chat about what I'd need to do to get a job working as a tech (spotlight operator is my preferred tech role) or stage manager for Disney World.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "It is by the Avenue Q team so should be pretty interesting." Interesting...but if Tarzan Rocks was expensive, I can't imagine this one will be any less so with talent like that!
Originally Posted By leemac There is a fair amount of investment going into DAK even after Everest so this is just part of the master planning.
Originally Posted By Labuda "There is a fair amount of investment going into DAK even after Everest" So when are we gonna get Beastly Kingdom?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I saw the show twice, and I attend music concerts probably at least once a month on average, and I never liked tarzan. It didn't do anything for me the first time so I decided to give it a second try a few years later...nyah ! No one on my family ever wanted to see it, and that is a wide age span so I am not sure who the target audience was, but it wasn;t us. My kids like the Flight show - and Lion King just not Tarzan.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden I love the movie and love the music, but that show gives me the heebie jeebies. I've only heard my wife drop the "f" bomb twice in the 15 years (geez, I'm getting old) I've known her. The first time was when we got hoodwinked into going in Medievel Times and the second was at Tarzan Rocks. It was during the Terk segment and she leaned over our son and covered his ears (think Vince Vaughn in "Old School") and whispered "WTF IS this?" Ahh, Disney memories.
Originally Posted By WDWtechie Right now there are no openings as a spotlight opearator. The only job openings we have is in the field of Acrobatic Rigger, Costume Mistress for Beauty and the Beast, Stagehand for Beauty and the Beast, Float Painter, Float Technician, Stage Equipment Manager for Fantasmic, and 15 openings for Rigging crew for Festical of the Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and for the new show at Animal Kingdom.
Originally Posted By WDWtechie These fields require some background in that field. But as soon as I get a list of what kind of crew i need to hire for the new show I will let you know if i need a followspot operator. You will be the first one i tell and ask to hire. The only thing is you must be 20 years or older to get the job musthave some experience in Followspot operation or must have some kind of knowledge of the field so you can be trained to operate one. We wont be hiring any crews until the final designs of the show are finished. Then we will be hiring crews and traning them to run the show. Once the designs are done and the stage is finished being remodeled to the new shows requirements then the crews and technicians can move in and start rehearsing without the cast there. Then once the cast is finished learing the show they will move into the theatre and rehearse with the crew and techinicans. The rehearsal process can take anywhere from 3 to 4 weeks and maybe longer before the show is ready to open. The designs for the show have to bedone i 5 days. Right now the theatre is getting rid of anything related to Tarzan Rocks. All of its lighitng will be used in the next show along with new lighting. They have just finished tearing out the old set and rigging trusses and lighting trusses and all of the set is going to be used in another show in a different configuration just not in this new show. The show is going to puppest yes but very expensive puppets that are going to be very hard to light becasue of the material they are made of which is very tranparent when lit. I have a challenge on my hands. I have been working with the puppet desiger and the puppetears to figure out how i can light the puppets so they dont see the puppetear inside or behind the character. The show, for once, is going to depend on the lighting for most of its technical things. Puppetears are going to depend on the light to be in the right sopt so they know where to stand or be able to see whrer they are going. Im glad the lighting is going to be important this time. Im tired of the lighting to be used just to show the mood and time period of the show and to light up the stage.
Originally Posted By Labuda techie - I'm not looking at immediate future - I have to get totally out of debt before I can take a job with Disney, I figure, since you're likely not IATSE there, so not going to make the big bucks doing just one thing.
Originally Posted By Labuda Oh, and as for followspot experience, I'm considered by the best lighting designer here in Austin to be the best spot op in Austin.
Originally Posted By Labuda ...and right now I'm headed downtown to my fun job of running a spot @ Zach Scott Theatre Center - <a href="http://www.zachscott.com" target="_blank">http://www.zachscott.com</a> You're in Urinetown... your ticket should say Urinetown...
Originally Posted By danyoung >Oh, and as for followspot experience, I'm considered by the best lighting designer here in Austin to be the best spot op in Austin. < And modest - did you mention modest? Hey, baby - if you can't toot your own horn, whose can you toot?
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney ''Yay for Nemo! Looking forward to seeing it when I'm at WDW in November!'' I have nothing against Nemo, loved the film, but this seems like fish overload with the Living Seas makeover and now this show. But it still has to be better than either Jungle Book or Tarzan, so I'm looking forward to it.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Sounds like this show could be a little like Animagique at WDSP? Is it going to use blacklights? Also, I do have to say I am a little disappointed it's Finding Nemo - although a beautiful looking movie, story and character wise, I feel it's Pixar's weakest. And now a show based on it? I am intrigued to see the results. I can't wait for Nov/Dec!
Originally Posted By wedway72 I will miss Tarzan rocks, I never went for the music. Am I right girls?!? Nemo, well at least it isnt't Stitch!
