Moana dropped the Heart of Te Fiti during her segment. Thought this was a pretty cool fail as the manual followspot stayed on her as she backtracked to pick up the prop.
Interesting thing to note are the followspots are on a timer, rather than controlled by the tech operating it, since it turned off before the CM could finish their run across the stage. The static lights still ran as normal even though no one was there on cue.
I'm pretty sure they use the manual spots that are on those scissor lifts in the back and on top of the control booth, which are used during the intro, princess medley, Aladdin, etc.I believe they're using blacktrax to track the performer, not manual tracking.
The DCA frozen show was using blacktrax I think.I'm pretty sure they use the manual spots that are on those scissor lifts in the back and on top of the control booth, which are used during the intro, princess medley, Aladdin, etc.
For Moana, I believe they use a combo of manual spots and lights on the overhead rigs that are time coded.
Can see in this screenshot that one manual spot operated by a tech in the back stays on Moana through her run across the stage and until the "I Am Moana" lyric.
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Blacktrax would be interesting and nice, but they don't even use those in the stage shows at DL and WDW afaik.
Another angle of the crash
Another angle of the crash
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