Quick-Change (stage)

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Sos and Victoria Petrosyan
Victoria is briefly covered ...
... to shine in a different costume shortly afterwards
The costume change can also be carried out under a dense cloud of confetti

Quick Change describes the skill of stage performers to change their costume with rapid speed.

description

Often there is a quick change of costumes in performances by magicians. The best known is the version in which the assistant is locked into a cabinet, from which the person escapes and appears in a different costume.

Another version is the quick costume change on the open stage, in which the artist steps behind a screen and reappears in a new costume after a few seconds.

Since the 1970s, the Italian artist and actor Arturo Brachetti , in particular, has made the quick costume change popular by staging complete plays that were written for several people, but all of which are played by Brachetti himself, who quickly adapt to new ones Characters transformed and appear in different costumes.

history

The art of quick costume changes goes back to the Italian artist Leopoldo Fregoli (1867–1936). Quick change is first described in the literature in the book by Will Goldston (1878-1948), The Magician Annual , 1910-1911 by Lee Laurie (1872-1955). The following year Will Goldston himself covered it in his book Exclusive Magical Secrets .

Protagonists

literature

  • Schoppenhauer, Sven, Quick Change - rapid costume changes for men, 2003
  • Schoppenhauer, Sven, Quickchange - lightning-fast costume changes for men, 2003
  • Petrosyan, Sos and Victoria, Quick Change Transformation: Part I, Men's Suit Transformation, 2008
  • Schoppenhauer, Sven, Quick Change 2 - high speed haute couture entertainment, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89650-295-7
  • Retonio, Quick Change - Secrets -, Dreamfactory Production, 2015, ISBN 978-3-033-04932-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Moretti , who had himself locked in a large box with his bare upper body and reappeared in a clown costume . Described in Magische Welt , No. 4, 1997
  2. ↑ Will Goldston, Quick Changes, in Exclusive Magical Secrets, Will Goldston, 1912, 369 ff.
  3. ↑ Cha Peau on Brachetti in Magical World, Issue 1, 2001, page 12
  4. ↑ Otto Wessely on Arturo Brachetti in Magische Welt, issue 5, 2010, page 209
  5. ↑ Alex Rusconi, Fregoli: La biografia, Stampa Alternativa / Nuovi Equilibri, 2011, ISBN 978-88-6222-180-1
  6. ↑ Lee Laurie, Quick Change Secrets, in The Magician Annual, Will Goldston, 1910–1911, pp. 97 ff.
  7. ↑ Will Goldston, Quick Changes, in Exclusive Magical Secrets, Will Goldston, 1912, 369 ff.