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How do they get the sets to move around in a Broadway musical?
I know they're on some sort of rail (I can see the lines in the stage floor), but I'm curious as to how they're powered.
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- 2 decades agoFavorite Answer
i can't speak for broadway, but there is an amphitheater i visit regularly, and their scenery runs on a track (or rail). there are wheels on the piece to be moved that go over the trac, like train wheels. if it is a lighter piece of scenery, it is rolled by a person from behind giving a good push. if it is heavier, there are cranks offstage that pull a chain underneath the rail, kind of like how a roller coaster is pulled up the hill. then there are people waiting backstage to stop the moving scenery hopefully before it crashes into the wall.
