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from Salt Lake City, where Peter
Pan is showing before heading to
Detroit as part of a 57-city tour
over two 10-month stints.
Rubin was an actor and magi-
cian in local theater productions
and charity benefits and earned
a theater arts degree at the
University of Nevada-Las Vegas,
where he met the owner of a
company that specialized in fly-
ing and other theatrical special
effects.
"I didn't even know there were
companies around that did this
sort of thing, and suddenly I was
doing it myself:' he recalled. "I
became sort of a flying illusion-
ist!'
He began working his "flying
magic" with Rigby in Peter Pan in
1988. "She and the other flyers in
the show are held up by steel air-
craft cable that's one-sixteenth of
an inch thick — and they fly by
manual labor:' he explained. "My
assistant and I pull the ropes to
make Cathy fly, and local stage-
hands operate the ropes for the
three flying children. On the
morning of opening night at the
Fisher Theatre, I'll spend about
30 minutes training the local
crew.
"We've never encountered any-
one with a fear of flying, and
we've never had any accidents.
When the youngsters see Cathy
flying with no danger, it puts
them at ease. We even give flights
to the non-flying cast members
on their birthdays during
rehearsals."
Rubin made the monkeys fly in
the Broadway hit show Wicked,
and got the Wicked Witch into
the air on her broomstick using a
hydraulic lift ( Wicked comes to
Detroit's Masonic Temple Theatre
May 31-June18).
He also flew the Wicked Witch
and monkeys in various produc-
tions of The Wizard of Oz. In the
Broadway revival of Fiddler on
the Roof he used special wires to
create Chagall-like aerial poses
for the actors in the Fruma-Sarah
dream scene.
He handled suicide sequences
in the Broadway version of
Saturday Night Fever, as an actor
jumped off of a bridge protected
by a safety wire, and the Tony
Award-winning play Frozen,
when a prison inmate hangs
himself in his cell protected by a
specially rigged wire and har-
ness. He also flew "Spidy" himself
in a special show titled The
Spider Man Live Stunt
Spectacular.
"My next big challenge will be
in the upcoming Broadway pro-
duction of Dr. Doolittle, when I'll
have to fly a 650-pound lunar
moth, but I'll do that with a
motorized pull system:' he said.
Rubin also has contributed his
flying talents to a number of
movies and television shows and
worked with many other well-
known actors and directors.
Paul Rubin: No fear of flying.
Holidays Are Hard
He tries his best to observe the
major Jewish holidays during his
hectic travel schedule, but finds it
difficult at times.
"Last Chanukah, the only other
Jew in the show, Jordan Bass, and
I invited the rest of the cast into a
dressing room and lit a candle
each night:' he said. "We celebrat-
ed by giving candy to everyone."
Bass, 24 and single and also a
native New Yorker, plays Curly, a
lost boy, in Peter Pan, but he
doesn't fly. He joins Rubin in hol-
iday celebrations whenever he
can, "but we run into all kinds of
conflicts in this business:' he
said.
"One time, my sister, Lauren,
and I were trying out for a big
show and we got a call-back —
on Yom Kippur. We told them,
You wouldn't have scheduled this
on Christmas, would you?' and
they said, 'Of course not.'"
Bass' 5-foot-4-inch height
makes it easy for him to play the
role of a 12-year-old in Peter Pan.
"Curly is one of Peter's gang of
five friends in the show:' he said.
October 13 .2005
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