Stage Glitter?

[kaylasdad99]

So, this morning, Michaela decided that I needed to watch Jesus Christ Superstar Live, the one that was on NBC in 2018 (partly because we heard Andrew Lloyd Webber discussing it with Seth Rudetsky earlier, on Sirius XM, and mostly because it was directed by her acting teacher at Pace). At the beginning of the temple scene, a few performers/stagehands spread some glittery substance all over the tables that comprised the Temple set. The glitter was evidently intended to represent the money that was changing hands (and the merchandise, too, it looked like).

What astonished me was that people were fairly bathing themselves in glitter, with no evident concern that it was going to be stuck to them and their clothing FOREVER. And, contrary to all of my expectations and experience with glitter, it DIDN’T stick to them. It just fell right off, apparently to be swept away later.

This is not the way glitter behaves, to the best of my knowledge. Where did they get glitter that doesn’t stick to every surface it touches?

[nearwildheaven]

I Googled “stage glitter” and this website popped right up.

https://www.bulkglitters.com/Glitter_For_Stage_Sets.html

[MindsEye_Watering]

Sorry to hijack, but I saw “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” for the first time last week.

What an amazing production.

[I_Love_Me_Vol.I]

@kaylasdad99

So, this morning, Michaela decided that I needed to watch Jesus Christ Superstar Live, the one that was on NBC in 2018 (partly because we heard Andrew Lloyd Webber discussing it with Seth Rudetsky earlier, on Sirius XM, and mostly because it was directed by her acting teacher at Pace). At the beginning of the temple scene, a few performers/stagehands spread some glittery substance all over the tables that comprised the Temple set. The glitter was evidently intended to represent the money that was changing hands (and the merchandise, too, it looked like).

What astonished me was that people were fairly bathing themselves in glitter, with no evident concern that it was going to be stuck to them and their clothing FOREVER. And, contrary to all of my expectations and experience with glitter, it DIDN’T stick to them. It just fell right off, apparently to be swept away later.

This is not the way glitter behaves, to the best of my knowledge. Where did they get glitter that doesn’t stick to every surface it touches?

Who’s Michaela? Should I know her?

[jnglmassiv]

@I_Love_Me_Vol.I

Who’s Michaela? Should I know her?

Suppose OP was spelled Michaelasdad99?

[Kamino_Neko]

The ‘bigger the flake, bigger the sparkle’ bit in nearwildheaven’s link probably explains most of the fact that it didn’t stick.

Bigger flakes mean bigger sparkle…but smaller chance that it’ll be tenaciously clinging to [del]your buttocks[/del]literally everything.

(And as to why they didn’t care…occupational hazard.)

[kaylasdad99]

@I_Love_Me_Vol.I

Who’s Michaela? Should I know her?

She’s the Kayla that gives rise to my handle.