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Light Fantastic
Crewmembers
work on the
production's
greenscreen
stage.

"That was our biggest production
number," Marshall notes. "It involved
dancers, stuntmen - [who are] incredible, hardcore bicyclists - kids and
multiple sets."
Gaffer Dave Smith reports that the
most complicated set lighting to prep
was at the Abandoned Park for the "Trip

a Little Light Fantastic" number. He
adds that the sequence required more
than 100 moving lighting units. "There
were [also] 60-odd PAR cans in different
configurations, but with every unit
going back to the [GrandMA II console
operated by Daniel Bocking and Dave
Tatoro], which controlled a particular

color or time when a light would go on or
off," he says. "There are somewhere over
150 cues within that piece, with the lights
changing with the dancing and the
music."
First AC Dave Cozens notes that
Mary Poppins Returns was "a massive
crane show" that particularly relied on
the 73' Chapman/Leonard Hydrascope,
among other tools. Robertson adds, "The
Steadicam was [also] ever-present. We
used it on London streets as a quick and
unobtrusive way to get moving shots
with the actors. The approach and departure from Cousin Topsy's, which
happens in an alleyway in Central
London, was a case in point. Steadicam
was often a good way to complement the
crane moves and allow a fluidity in the
[dancing]."
Robertson reports that the production also employed a Gizmo remote stabilized head, which he operated, to achieve
rollover shots in the Cousin Topsy scene
that takes place in an upside-down room



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