During installation at The Roma theatre.

The Roma Musical theatre in Warsaw have been enjoying great success with their production of Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webbers “Phantom of the Opera” and Visual act were happy to help with their most dangerous and daring special effect to date.

For anybody who has not seen ‘Phantom of the Opera’, there must be a few left out there, we must explain that there is a critical scene in the musical that involves a chandelier falling from the roof of the theatre and crashing onto the stage.

Visual act provided the theatre with a two winch system that suspends the chandelier from above the audience. At the appropriate moment the Visual act Control System activates the winches in a synchronous movement that ‘drives’ the chandelier from the roof to the stage.

All sounds very technical, but we assure you that the chandelier shown above is about the same size as a Volkswagen and when it falls from the roof and explodes onto the stage, the screams from the audience in the front rows let me know that this effect is a great success.