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Elphaba, the "wicked" witch, has a flying scene that ends Act 1 Special Effects Dazzle in Musical 'Wicked' Jan 14, 2:58 PM EST A smoke-breathing dragon flaps its wings and cranks its head 5 million set of "Wicked," a new musical at the Gershwin Theatre that tells the story of "The Wizard of Oz" from the viewpoint of the witches who made life such a challenge for Dorothy in the classic 1939 film He began by reading the Maguire novel, then drew a series of sketches to transfer Maguire's vision of Oz onto a stage "Wicked" puts a new twist on a story that parallels the familiar movie "I woke up in time for the next scene, but had a knot on my head A witch in a sparkling blue gown travels on a bubble-blowing pendulum " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: www "You have to be aware all the time of your spacing," she says The work was complicated "I wear a huge dress, and sometimes it gets caught on those vines She grabs the broom, mounts it and takes flight singing the number "Defying Gravity " To achieve the effect, Lee and Pierce designed a telescoping arm that the audience never sees because it is hidden by the ubiquitous smoke and many yards of dark fabric " The gowns that Chenoweth wears in most scenes also have forced her to pay close attention as she scampers through narrow passages and stairways The smoke, which maintains the sinister atmosphere of this ornate fantasyland, also obscures several trap doors where characters appear and disappear from time to time "She still needs the freedom to sing, so we didn't want to use a harness," said Pierce wickedthemusi cal " The incident taught her a lesson: "You have to respect the set "Lots of smoke comes through these," says Lee backstage as he points to tiny slots cut into the false maple floor that serves as the platform for the show's big dance numbers " While the computer cues are all choreography down to the beat of a musical note, some of the staging remains in the hands of humans, especially the flying elements, like the monkeys Frank Baum, while "Wicked," the musical, draws inspiration from the novel of that title by Gregory Maguire Designer Eugene Lee, who has won Tony Awards for a revival of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" and Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," gives only passing notice to the famous yellow brick road in his elaborate set On one occasion, an automated light tower struck Chenoweth, knocking her out for a few moments "Wicked" received mixed reviews when it opened just before Halloween, but word-of-mouth assured nearly full houses throughout the holiday season and beyond "We had to learn a flying pattern," says LJ Jellison, who plays one of two monkeys who fly over the audience in Act 2 "And sometimes, mechanics," adds associate set designer Edward Pierce, 33, whom Lee credits with assembling the many parts of the project and making them all work " So far the monkey actors have only sustained a few bumps during rehearsals One of Pierce's jobs was to use computer software to convert Lee's sketches into precise drawings for mechanics, carpenters, electricians and technicians who would build the scenery And a green witch in a black hat flies her broomstick through billows of smoke A backstage crew controls the cables that allow them to soar com All these special effects happen within the $1 The set was made from steel and other basic materials â€â€? aluminum, fiberglass, plastic, fabric and natural vines that serve as launching pads for the flying monkeys Lee, 64, his white hair cropped short and his bow tie loosely knotted, smiles often when he talks about this project Of course, Beckler prefers that the audience hardly notices the transitions, when gear panels slide out and beds seem to slide into place just in time for witches to flop onto them While Chenoweth considers Lee's scenery "just genius," she acknowledges the tricky set has given her "a couple of hard moments" in her role of Glinda "We are both architects and engineers," says Lee Still, no matter how perfect the automation, it poses some hazards Cued to the music and lighting by computers, the panels and the wheels seem in constant motion during transitions from one song and scene to the next, rolling and sliding along the floor in grooves disguised by clouds of smoke The stage manager sequences cues to the music, giving signals to computer console operators who in turn automate the movement of scenery with the lighting As Chenoweth says, "It feels good to have a hit on your hands Since "Wicked" opened, Lee has returned several times to gauge audience reaction to those moments when the set plays a big role He assembled a scale model which he presented to director Joe Mantello, book writer Winnie Holzman, composer Stephen Schwartz, the producers, and ultimately, the full company â€â€? "a great collaboration," Lee says Director Mantello wanted Elphaba, played by Idina Menzel, to show her mastery of the broomstick that rises magically through a trap door There's no stopping those panels and towers The clock image envelops all the characters in the Oz story Kristin Chenoweth, as Glinda the "good" witch, demonstrates a knack for one-liners that keeps the audience laughing, despite the dark debate over goodness and wickedness The movie was based on a series of novels by L Lee calls it an important storytelling moment and an audience favorite "And we have to avoid mid-air collisions The task of coordinating all this action with the show's music, lighting and scenery while transitions flow perfectly, night after night, fell to production supervisor Steven Beckler Monkeys fly from a tangle of vines that frames a giant fantasy clock However, the precise and brisk staging makes the nearly three-hour show pass quickly "Where else can you build a dragon?" he asks Lee designed the big clock, based on "a kind of mad clock" from the Maguire novel, and defined his vision by creating a series of moving panels of gears and cog wheels that became the central image for the set More recently, she teamed with fellow television chef Jacques Pepin for the 1994 PBS special, "Julia Child & Jacques Pepin: Cooking in Concert" and a 1996 sequel, "More Cooking in Concert Child won a Peabody award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966, and went on to star in several more series for Boston's WGBH-TV " Child also had been collaborating on a memoir with a grandnephew, Alex Prud'homme, and had completed two chapters, said her longtime editor at Knopf, Judith Jones "I like beer," Child said enthusiastically, pulling out a cold bottle and two glasses " In France, she also met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she collaborated on "Mastering the Art of French Cooking It was published in 1961 and was followed by "The French Chef Cookbook"; "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol "And when I got into cooking I found it The couple had no children Instead, she ended up in the publicity department of a New York City furniture and rug chain She was 91 , moved to Santa Barbara Russell Morash, who produced "The French Chef" and other public television shows featuring Child as recently as the mid-1990s, said she was a consummate optimist with a razor-sharp intellect and voracious appetite for learning In one TV program, chef and friend Jacques Pepin asked what kind of wine she preferred with picnics â€â€? red or white Whether it was how to make French bread, or how to prepare the perfect omelet, she would take the trouble to learn about something, and then she mastered it in a way that I never saw anyone else do Pepin recalled a friendship that began in 1960 " Child was a skillful â€â€? and sometimes messy â€â€? chef, beckoning everyone to have no fear and give exquisite cuisine a try Her custom-designed kitchen â€â€? including small utensils, personal cookbooks and six-burner Garland commercial range â€â€? has been on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History " She also was on the cover of Time magazine in 1966 "I'd been looking for my life's work all along," she once told the AP Decades of popularity prompted President Bush last year to give her a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor " Her gourmet philosophy also included drinking "She passed away in her sleep," Cousins said She's the rock that started the avalanche that changed the way America eats," said Brooke Johnson, president of the Food Network She co-founded the American Institute of Wine and Food in San Francisco in 1981 and co-founded the James Beard Foundation in New York City in 1986 Born in Pasadena, Calif She was 51 when she made her television debut as "The French Chef The food and cooking channel on Aug A 6-foot-2 American folk hero, "The French Chef" was known to her public as Julia "She had no snobbism about food whatsoever â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? Associated Press Writer Daisy Nguyen contributed to this report She loved iceberg lettuce "America has lost a true national treasure," Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Child's publisher, Alfred A " Child also expressed a fondness for hamburgers, which she ate while recovering from 2002 knee-replacement surgery " In an A-line skirt and blouse, and an apron with a dish towel tucked into the waist, Child grew familiar enough to be parodied by Dan Aykroyd on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and was the subject of Jean Stapleton's musical revue, "Bon Appetit "Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal," she said in the introduction to her seventh book, "The Way to Cook Child enrolled in the famed Cordon Bleu cooking school, motivated at least in part by a desire to cook for her epicure husband Paul Child died in 1994, and in late 2001, Julia Child, a longtime resident of Cambridge, Mass 22 will air a recently completed documentary on Child, Johnson said They married in 1946 and two years later were sent to Paris , Child once said she was raised on so-so cooking by hired cooks She was sent off to do clerical chores in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where she met Paul Child, a career diplomat who later became a photographer and painter, on the porch of a tea planter's bungalow in 1943 "She was more than a pioneer, a legend or a giant TV Cooking Show Icon Julia Child Dies Aug 13, 3:21 PM EST Julia Child, whose chirping words of encouragement and unpretentious style brought French cuisine to American homes through her television series and books, died Friday , restaurant " The series began in 1963 and continued for 206 episodes " Child, who died two days before her 92nd birthday, had been suffering from kidney failure, Cousins said Knopf, said in a statement When World War II began, she joined the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA She graduated from Smith College in 1934 with a history degree and aspirations to be a novelist or a writer for The New Yorker magazine " "In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal She showed a delight not only in preparing good food but in sharing it, and ended her landmark public television lessons at a set table with the wish, "Bon appetit " The book was nine years in the making and became mandatory for anyone who took cooking seriously A private memorial service was planned, but Child asked that no funeral be held She had cookbooks and many paintings by her husband Paul around the house "She will be missed terribly "It wasn't just for fancy French chefs Work on the memoir likely will continue, she said Like the rest of us, she sometimes dropped things or had trouble getting a cake out of its mold " Since the 1980s, she devoted attention to promoting the serious study of food and cooking I was inspired by the tremendous seriousness with which they took it "She was incredibly smart, and if she wanted to learn something, she set about learning it to the idea that cooking could be a pleasure and it wasn't drudgery in the kitchen," said Alice Waters, executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse, the celebrated Berkeley, Calif II," with Beck; "From Julia Child's Kitchen"; "Julia Child & Company"; "Julia Child & More Company"; and "The Way to Cook," in October 1989 " Child died at her home in an assisted-living center in Montecito, about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles, said her niece, Philadelphia Cousins "She was with family and friends and her kitten, Minou "We'd go to the market, and she'd buy Wonder Bread," he told The Associated Press "She just kind of opened the doors |
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