Paul Rubin, not to be confused with the guy who plays Pee-wee Herman, is a master in the art of flying actors around on stage. Once upon a time, it used to be "Flying by Foy," an old family business that specialized in this art. Rubin started with them, then branched out on his own and he's taken the skill to (the puns are unavoidable) greater heights. Here's a little montage of his work, which has included devising and staging flying scenes for theme park shows and Broadway productions, including Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan.
Ms. Rigby, by the way, is soon to embark on her — how many is this? Ninth? Fifteenth? — farewell tour in the role. I don't care how many times she says she's going to stop doing it just so long as she doesn't stop doing it. She's really wonderful in the role…and the more she grows up, the more impressive it is that she can play a boy who doesn't grow up. She'll be hovering at Madison Square Garden in New York this December and out in La Mirada (which is probably as close as she'll get to Los Angeles) for June of 2012. I'm not sure where else she'll be soaring yet but wherever she flies, it'll probably be with the help of Paul Rubin, the man who can make performers do things like this…