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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 styx