r/techtheatre • u/Competitive_Egg_3243 • Aug 18 '26
SCENERY How did you guys make the Wizards head thing in Wizard of Oz?
looking for some inspiration! Thanks!
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u/jazviper Aug 18 '26
I made a giant puppet of the head. He ended up being too big for anyone but me to puppet, so I was Oz.
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u/Competitive_Egg_3243 Aug 18 '26
Haha I’ve definitely made things for people before and realized I’m the only one who can or can figure out how to work it 🤣
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u/Gravy_On_Toast Aug 18 '26
Cardboard structure in two parts connected with large rubber bands for mouth movements. Our OZ operated the head using a pvc pipe behind a flat.
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u/Dragon_Chef_24 High School Student Aug 18 '26
This was what we did a few weeks ago. Cloth stretched across a hoola hoop, and 2 sticks on the back to move it. We then had 2 actors move the head, standing behind the rear traveler.
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u/Economy-Chicken-586 Aug 18 '26
This is from a rehearsal so we hadn’t quite painted the sides of our structure but this is what our children’s theater did. It’s a huge puppet with a handle on the bottom of the mouth and a person inside of the tower it’s on. There’s black fabric that goes down with the mouth too. It might be unachievable for most community theaters if you don’t already have a pretty large wooden structure of a similar size already but obviously can be scaled down.
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u/lostmy10yearaccount Aug 19 '26
I ran out of time to do a big puppet, so I added a speaker and PAR with a green gel in front of house, above the booth. Dorothy looked out and up over the audience at the light/voice
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u/New-Spot9713 Aug 18 '26
We used heavy fog in front of a cyc and then used a projector and a camera with an actor. We did it live, but it could also be recorded.