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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Dutch stars hurt in Grease mishap
BBC NEWS: "The stars of a Dutch production of Grease were injured when their car fell into the theatre's orchestra pit."
This is why things like this need safetys. One thing that would've very easily protected from this was just a small dip or lip on the edge of the stage. It certainly goes to show why it is that we need to control what goes on onstage so often.
I agree, most of the time accidents like this happen due to carelessness. Overlooking something as big as this safety issue seems ridiculous to me. Somebody should have been more careful, there is no reason this needed to happen. I bet it could have been prevented.
It is very odd that no on thought of the possiblity that something like that might occur while building the car. Though it is easy to assume that the actors would be aware enough to not drive it over the edge. I wish the article explained more about how the incident happened, whether the vehicle got out of control or what not. Beautiful car though, sad that is no broken.
the article doesn't explain much, but whatever the circumstances there was obviously was very little thought that went into safety, or control over the effect. i am glad that no musicians were hurt in the accident. it could have been much worse
During the opening ceremony for our Fine Arts Center at home, the high school student giving a speech stepped over the lights rimming the pit, but he just thought the lights were there for decoration. He didn't realize they'd taken the pit out. He broke his collarbone, but they caught it on camera and sent it in to America's Funniest Home Videos and got some money...
Not relevant really, but this news article just reminded me of things falling into orchestra pits needlessly....
When looking at this I wonder with the amount of tracking that we use with bringing scenery on and off stage why didn't we just put the car on a track to go on and off stage so that this wouldn't have happened instead of letting the actor in a sense free drive a vehicle on stage. Even though the actors were hurt and such; things could have been much worse such as by the car going into an audience and injuring the audience.
That is one sweet looking car. I am really amazed however that using the engine from a golf cart was even considered. Maybe I am just still in the highschool mindset where ideas like that were definitely shot down.
I worked on a show that used an old Model-T Ford car with a golf car engine to putter across the stage... had to midstage too... we always gave it an extra push onto the stage so it looked like he was going fast. And we always prayed that it would start up again when he went to drive it offstage... The only problem we had... was the wings aren't big enough for a car to do a U-Turn... o_O So we had a hydralic lift on each side of the stage to jack the car up and then turn that sucker around... it was quite fun actually.
I guess we're lucking nothing happened like the Greese thing. There was no lip on the pit, but we also kept the car a lot further upstage than they did. =O
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This is why things like this need safetys. One thing that would've very easily protected from this was just a small dip or lip on the edge of the stage. It certainly goes to show why it is that we need to control what goes on onstage so often.
I agree, most of the time accidents like this happen due to carelessness. Overlooking something as big as this safety issue seems ridiculous to me. Somebody should have been more careful, there is no reason this needed to happen. I bet it could have been prevented.
It is very odd that no on thought of the possiblity that something like that might occur while building the car. Though it is easy to assume that the actors would be aware enough to not drive it over the edge. I wish the article explained more about how the incident happened, whether the vehicle got out of control or what not. Beautiful car though, sad that is no broken.
the article doesn't explain much, but whatever the circumstances there was obviously was very little thought that went into safety, or control over the effect. i am glad that no musicians were hurt in the accident. it could have been much worse
During the opening ceremony for our Fine Arts Center at home, the high school student giving a speech stepped over the lights rimming the pit, but he just thought the lights were there for decoration. He didn't realize they'd taken the pit out. He broke his collarbone, but they caught it on camera and sent it in to America's Funniest Home Videos and got some money...
Not relevant really, but this news article just reminded me of things falling into orchestra pits needlessly....
When looking at this I wonder with the amount of tracking that we use with bringing scenery on and off stage why didn't we just put the car on a track to go on and off stage so that this wouldn't have happened instead of letting the actor in a sense free drive a vehicle on stage. Even though the actors were hurt and such; things could have been much worse such as by the car going into an audience and injuring the audience.
That is one sweet looking car. I am really amazed however that using the engine from a golf cart was even considered. Maybe I am just still in the highschool mindset where ideas like that were definitely shot down.
I worked on a show that used an old Model-T Ford car with a golf car engine to putter across the stage... had to midstage too... we always gave it an extra push onto the stage so it looked like he was going fast. And we always prayed that it would start up again when he went to drive it offstage... The only problem we had... was the wings aren't big enough for a car to do a U-Turn... o_O So we had a hydralic lift on each side of the stage to jack the car up and then turn that sucker around... it was quite fun actually.
I guess we're lucking nothing happened like the Greese thing. There was no lip on the pit, but we also kept the car a lot further upstage than they did. =O
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