'Boogie Nights' - School Production
- By Blue Chilli Flying
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- 23 Mar, 2017
A short visit to Venue Cymru, Llandudno, where we spent a fantastic few days providing the flying effects for Ysgol John Bright’s production of ‘Boogie Nights’! Here we provided three manual pendulum flying systems, along with Flying Directors to oversee the short run of the production. The venue, cast and crew were a pleasure to work with and we were of course thrilled to receive this email upon our return!
Thank you for all your assistance last week. The production team really enjoyed having you around and the fact that our kids bought you thank you gifts says it all!
I’m sure you’ll appreciate that as a team we were initially quite nervous about incorporating ‘flying’ into our production, but we persisted because wanted to both try something new and add a different dimension to our productions. The very reason my colleague Daniel chose Blue Chilli Flying over other companies was because you were willing to take the time to chat things over and repeatedly explain things to us that we’d not understood. We particularly appreciated your willingness to fit in with our tight schedule in terms of the installation on the Thursday morning and the calm way you trained all our flying operators and the four flyers whilst liaising with Venue Cymru’s technical staff. Knowing that you had worked with multiple professionals in the industry made the fact that you were willing to ‘roll up your sleeves’ and become a part of our team even more special. All four of our flyers felt completely safe at all times and this was down to your reassurances and confidence in them.
The production team are already in discussion as to next year’s show and have been thinking of ways we can take our productions to the next level. We will definitely keep Blue Chilli Flying in mind as we prepare. Should other schools around the UK feel nervous about theatrical flying and need some reassurance, please feel free to connect them with us over email.
Thanks so much for all of your work.
Kindest regards,
Sian, Daniel, Donna, Sian, Richard
Ysgol John Bright ‘Boogie Nights’ Production Team
December…..and this years ‘World’s Biggest Panto’ was family favourite Peter Pan!
Featuring a cast of over 100 performers including comedy legend, actor and presenter BRADLEY WALSH and Spandau Ballet bassist and EastEnder MARTIN KEMP, Blue Chilli Flying provided 2 x 25m long automated performer track systems that elevated and travelled the performers high above the runway-style thrust stage.
She show opened at Birmingham Arena (formerly the Barclaycard Arena), later moving to Wembley Arena and entertained audiences of all ages over the festive period. We had a great time working on this production and with the talented actors and actresses we flew.
The incredible Matt Knight (Semi Finalist on Let It Shine - BBC One) played the role of Peter Pan. Naturally we work with many ‘Peter’s’ but Matt was a dream to work with…..at times we really did wonder whether Peter Pan was real! Hannah Grover (Wendy), Stephanie Siadatan (Tinkerbell), Charlie Quirke (John) & Chris Gage (Michael) completed the talented flying line up!
We assisted characters with that great beanstalk climb, along with providing a ‘Mission Impossible’ style entrance to the comedy duo who flew in from way above the proscenium right into a very messy slosh routine!!!
The show runs from 8th - 27th December.
Highgate Schools production of Peter Pan proved to be an outstanding visual production. Creative in their in-school prop and set making abilities, Blue Chilli Flying helped out by installing a simple but effective flying rig to make Peter, John, Michael & Wendy fly to Neverland.
Assisting with Charles Dickens’ classic characters, aerial entrances and exits provided visual effects that wowed the enthusiastic audiences.
29th Nov - 2nd Dec 2017.
Blue Chilli Flying were delighted to be brought in to provide a flying solution for this years Christmas pantomime ‘Aladdin’ at Lichfield Garrick Theatre. Here we installed a fully automated auditorium track system that would fly Aladdin (and his carpet of course!) out and over the audience.
Never the most straight forward of installations rigging over a span of seats, however careful planning meant the install went smoothly and quickly.
Aladdin runs from 30 November 2017 - Saturday 6 January 2018
https://www.lichfieldgarrick.com/whats-on/family/aladdin/40#
Elf….this time for Pantheon Theatre , the critically-acclaimed musical theatre company based in Glasgow, Scotland! Blue Chilli designed and built a custom sleigh for the production and then installed this as part of an automated lift, manual travel system at Glasgow’s Kings Theatre.
Photograph by Stephen Fothergill
They’re off to see the Wizard!!
Blue Chilli have had a fantastic time working with the cast, crew and creatives of Northampton Musical Theatre Company on their production of Wizard of Oz than runs from Tuesday 24th – Saturday 28th October 2017 at Northampton’s Derngate Theatre.
2 x Track Systems, 2 x Pendulum systems and a performer hoop for Glinda, and we had flying monkeys, flying Dorothy, flying witches…… the lot!!! A great bunch to work with…..all the best with the show guys!
