Magic Carpet Aladdin Broadway

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

Magic carpet aladdin broadway.

The magic carpet better known as just carpet is a supporting character in disney s 1992 animated feature film aladdin. But of course because michael lassell s the road to broadway and beyond disney aladdin. The broadway version of disney s aladdin has almost as many special effects as you d find in a major hollywood movie. Carpet s likeness is featured in epic mickey with the wasteland having its own version of the magic carpets of aladdin theme park attraction.

He is a sentient persian carpet whom aladdin befriends while traversing the cave of wonders. 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. Carpet only appears in the second act of the broadway musical adaptation of the film. They spin the wires really fast enough to trick the eye.

The carpet is a really interesting totally custom piece. 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. 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. 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.

Magic carpet 3 posted. 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.