Magic Carpet Aladdin Broadway

Here s how the show s creators pull off the magic in real time.

Magic carpet aladdin broadway.

Carpet was created a thousand years ago by the legendary sorcerer and carpet weaver khuriya who created one hundred magic carpets each with their own unique patterns and colors. They spin the wires really fast enough to trick the eye. 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. Carpet only appears in the second act of the broadway musical adaptation of the film.

The broadway version of disney s aladdin has almost as many special effects as you d find in a major hollywood movie. 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. The carpet is a really interesting totally custom piece. 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.

Anyone who has seen aladdin the musical will automatically know what we re referring to but for those of you who haven t the mind boggling mystery is how they make the magic carpet fly. Magic carpet 3 posted. The costumes and set design are among the most beautiful on broadway and aladdin and jasmine s magic carpet ride to a whole new world inspires gasps of delight. 9 26 14 at 3 34am that sounds neat about the spinning wires but i don t see how it would make much of a difference considering how dark the theatre becomes for.

I don t work on aladdin but i m friends with a few of the riggers. Carpet s likeness is featured in epic mickey with the wasteland having its own version of the magic carpets of aladdin theme park attraction.