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What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
#25re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:43pm
The Phantom of the Opera
and AIDA - Just Beautiful
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#26re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 4:16pm
BKLYN- at first i was confused, but then i was amazed!
The Woman In White- I thought the projector screen walls were amazing!
does anyone know if other shows use the same projector walls as WIW?
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#27re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 5:40pm
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
CATS
THE KING AND I revival
SHOW BOAT revival
RAGTIME
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#28re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 5:49pmI still have to be as wowed as I was when I saw CATS.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#29re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 5:54pm
-Crazy For You
-Sunday in the Park With George
-Mamma Mia
#30re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 5:55pm
THE KING AND I revival
This was the first Broadway show I saw and all I can remember is seeing the huge wooden elephants on the sides of the stage.
Am I correct to remember this?
Oh, and I remember the bed and the king's first entrance.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#31re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 6:21pm
"A Chorus Line (only kidding)"
At first glance A CHORUS LINE might seem like an odd choice but it's actually a brilliant design.
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#32re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 6:33pm
The Phantom of the Opera: mainly the Overture transformation. I love it to death. I also love the travelator and candles. However, the Overture will always be the most vivid in my memory of this show.
Evita: I'm a fan of what I call an incomplete set, which is where you do not see a bedroom on the stage, but you see a bed and a dresser and know it's a bedroom. I love how this set moves so fluidly from one scene to another without very many blackouts. The projection screen is another favorite of mine in this show.
Urinetown: Not the Broadway production, but a local community production. I love a set that makes the audience play along with the actors, and this was a great example. The set was one space, bad UC, with two raised areas, one with a skyline and the other a black box and white curtain. Most of the show took place in front of these at the PA, but the UGC scenes happened on the platform with the black box (actually a desk with light-up UGC letters) and the skyline served as a walkway, extension of the office, and the rooftop where the unthinkable happens. For a small community theatre with roughly 100 seats (maybe less), it was really good.
-- SDG
#33re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 6:39pmDirt Rotten Scoundrels, Sunday in the Park with George, Follies
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#34re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 6:57pmI have to say Piazza. I have never seen anything that beautiful!
Hartt School class of 2010 ;-)
TheaterAddict7652
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
#35re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 7:07pm
Light in the Piazza
Wicked
Phantom (which I've never seen, but from the pictures of it, it looks spectatcular)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
And while Spelling Bee's set isn't too impressive, I just LOVE how the lobby of the Circle in the Square is decorated to look like a middle school- with all the different posters and whatnot.
There's a lot I am not certain of...
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#36re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:05pm
Woman In White. It was like nothing I have ever seen.
The show was awful, but the sets blew me away.
It deserves a Tony.
#37re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:15pmWicked
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#38re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:17pm
Wicked is the ****tiest scenery on Broadway... i was offended to read that people liked it. tsk tsk tsk.
On The Twentieth Century
Grey Gardens
Woman In White had lovely furniture but the projections were a waste of time.
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#39re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:26pmI love the big ol' apartment building from Avenue Q. It's nothing great, but I just think all the little tricks and lights and doors on it are fun. I was lucky enough to go backstage, and it's a very neat-looking thing from the back. It's sort of like a giant telephone board, with all the switches and whatnot. Very cool.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#40re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:29pm
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Wicked
- Lion King
- Beauty and The Beast (mostly the Beast's castle)
#41re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:30pmBwayBaby18 if the set is so bad in wicked explain how it won the tony for best set?
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
#42re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:35pm
I agree---The sets in Wicked were terrific! Costumes too.
Just not among my listed all-time favories, but I loved the designs. Especially if you're an "Oz" fan. Some of them are based on (and IMO improved upon) designs from the original Oz books. Amazing detail.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#43re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:35pm
FOLLIES (the original)
FIDDLER (the original Chagall-inspired sets)
the current BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
SLEUTH
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#44re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:38pmI neglected to mention La Cage. I thought the sets were vibrant, detailed, and practically jumped off the stage. The restaurant set in particular really impressed me.
"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball
#45re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:39pmDollypop---I had a chance to see the original Fiddler sets (later after the Broadway run) and YOU'RE RIGHT. I forgot how great they were.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#46re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:49pmLord of the Rings...not a fan of the show...but when I saw the show...the scenery really suprised me. I will try and find some pictures of the set.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#48re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 9:16pm
Wicked
Little women - I thought the set design was really nice
Birdie Blue
BKLYN
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#49re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??
Posted: 4/10/06 at 9:17pmThe entire concept for "City of Angels" was brilliant and perfectly executed.
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