{"id":310,"date":"2006-09-10T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2006-09-13T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T17:14:19","slug":"fly-by-foy-theatre-flight-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/fly-by-foy-theatre-flight-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly By Foy &#8211; Theatre Flight Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"jpps.jpg\" id=\"image304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/jpps.jpg\" \/>How does Peter Pan fly through the air during live theatre shows? Find out at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flybyfoy.com\">flybyfoy.com<\/a> &#8211; one of the originators for stage flight, and one of the earliest pro theatre flight crews to work on Peter Pan.<\/p>\n<p>Skagit County&#8217;s Theatre Arts Guild has hired Fly By Foy to provide all flight fx for their November 2006 performances of Peter Pan at McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon, WA.<\/p>\n<p>Currently they have large touring, medium professional, church and community theatre projects going on throughout the United States. Checkout their website for more info at flybyfoy.com<\/p>\n<p>In talking to other people about Foy, it would seem they are recognized as the only company in America providing special fly effects for theatre &#8211; specifically for Peter Pan and the Wizard of Oz. For the Wizard of Oz they have a dedicated ballon basket that rises up for the final scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"peterl.jpg\" id=\"image305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/peterl.jpg\" \/>The company was started by Peter Foy. Here&#8217;s an excerpt on his background:<br \/>\nIn 1950,          a young Englishman named Peter Foy sailed from London&#8217;s West End to stage          the flying for a Broadway production of Peter Pan, starring Jean Arthur          and Boris Karloff. Foy&#8217;s services and the flying equipment were provided          by Kirby&#8217;s Flying Ballets, a British company hired by the show&#8217;s producers          after they discovered that virtually no theatrical flying had been performed          in the United States for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Past well known Peter Pan lead actresses include:<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Duncan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sduncan1.jpg\" id=\"image309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/sduncan1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMary Martin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mmartin1.jpg\" id=\"image308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/mmartin1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJean Arthur<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jearthur1.jpg\" id=\"image307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/jearthur1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCathy Rigby<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crigby1.jpg\" id=\"image306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/crigby1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Peter Pan fly through the air during live theatre shows? Find out at flybyfoy.com &#8211; one of the originators for stage flight, and one of the earliest pro theatre flight crews to work on Peter Pan. Skagit County&#8217;s Theatre Arts Guild has hired Fly By Foy to provide all flight fx for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-50","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}