There won't be real water in the lake in the Vegas Phantom. That was indeed the original idea, but was scrapped probably about a year ago. The story I heard was that it had to do with regulations about electricity and water. Apparently you can have lights in water, and you can have actors in water, but you can't have lights in water when actors are in it. So without being able to make the candles come up through the water while the actors are on the boat, it didn't make much sense. Too bad, as I was really curious to see how it would work.
-Sunset Blvd's mansion. -Chitty's car was fabulous. -Kiss of the Spider Woman's Web. -Wonderful Town's fantastic set that took one back to the period. -Piazza's Florence. -Bombay Dreams was full of glamorous and ravishing sets. -The innovative system used for The Woman in White, it might have not worked too well for everybody(i must admit it made one dizzy eventually) but just the fact they did something completely new is worth mentioning.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
There is a phenominal transition in The Lord of the Rings. 5 or 6 peices of white fabric are flown out of the stage but remain connected to one of the 4 revolves and then the stage begins to turn the fabric gets twisted together. Its crazy!
To clarify, at the very end of CARRIE (after "The Destruction" when all the high school kids are killed), a huge white staircase decsends upon the stage. I have no clue what it is supposed to symbolize (staircase to heaven?? it really makes no sense). Margaret White walks down the staircase towards her daughter, who is still covered in pig's blood. While sitting in the middle of the huge white staircase, Margaret sings to her daughter about how much she loves her, then stabs her to death. While Carrie is dying, she uses her powers to kill her mother. Margaret White is lying dead in the middle of the white staircase. Carrie crawls down the staircase to Sue, the only high schooler left alive, and dies in her arms at the bottom of the white staircase. The curtain falls.
And to answer the initial question of this post, according to my mom, the set of BAKER STREET was incredible. Wish I could have been around to see that show.
I second the giant Wizard head. CONTROVERSIAL COMMENT: It was the best part of the show. END CONTROVERSIAL COMMENT Also mentionable: the cube from Sweeney (while I can't track down pics of the original [supposedly gigantic] cube, the one on the tour DVD is pretty big too).
The sets of Wicked, The Light in the Piazza, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels were awesome.
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ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
i have to say a lot of the set pieces in the wedding seinger are REALLY creative:
-the airplane -the rotating restaurant -i love how they put the bouquet on the stick to guide it (not really a set piece tho) -robbies bed (adds a lot of comesy to the show) -glen's car (thats cute how they did that)
i know theyre not the "most awesome" set pieces but they were really creative
i second that damn time dragon. i was like "how to they get all that metal to move like that?!?!"...yea, i know the metal sculpture in rent was a pretty cool idea