Oh yea nearly forgot ,Gandolfs death was a laughable effect which left everybody asking why bother !

It ended the act like a damp squib.The power of the fan that blew the leaves was pretty impressive but the scene was so weak it was almost as dead as Gandolf himself.The problem being that when you mix very very expensive staging such as a huge multi level revolve with a fan and a confetti cannon,the classical theatre tricks suddenly stand out as incredibly dated.

Yes the wire work was pretty impressive and deserved the round of applause that it recieved,but it wasnt just a simple bit of wire work,a great many people were involved in that particular effect.Wire work as an art has developed along with the rest of theatre, and is used very effectively by such world renowned groups such as circ de sol.,