Favorite Set Designs

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BrianIdol
#125re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/11/08 at 10:15pm

While I haven't seen the show yet (and therefore can't really comment on the design) I thought i would post this pic of 'Shrek' that I came across today.


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#126re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/11/08 at 10:20pm

God, it's Tarzan...


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#127re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/12/08 at 9:42am

Little Women
Beauty and the Beast
The Little Mermaid
Follies

and if anyone's seen the Beatles Love Show in Vegas, its amazing


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Mattbrain
#128re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:50am

wicked_beast, you are so right. I'm actually wondering if Brian got the right musical? But I was at the Richard Rodgers this summer and I'm pretty sure that that's not what the inside of the theatre looks like.


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BWNUT
#129re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/12/08 at 4:17pm

Love, love, love this. Thanks for all the pictures and links. Ditto for "An Inspector Calls."

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#130re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/12/08 at 5:13pm

It is Shrek, I think he was trying to say it looks like another tarzan.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

Mattbrain
#131re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/12/08 at 6:18pm

It really does.


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SweeneyPhanatic
#132re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 2:55am

If anyone's got some, I would LOVE to see some pictures of the set for "Sunset Boulevard." From what I've seen in the CD booklet, it was quite impressive.

And if anyone happens to have some good shot of the set(?) for "Carrie," those would be cool to see, too. Yeah, I've seen the video, but it's really dark and blurry.


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#133re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 7:22am

Sorry to give an unoriginal answer, but I love the set in "The Lion King." It's really deceptively simple, but it's quite complex in a minimalistic, creative sort of way. Most notably, I love the stampede scene.


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defyinggravity42694
#134re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 9:33am

I think the Legally Blonde set is amazing. The Sorority house almost looks like is a back drop, then bam, the windows fly open. Also, just the sets in general, I find amazing.

I also really like the Beauty and The Beast, Wicked, Xanadu, Mary Poppins, and Little Mermaid one a lot.


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#135re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 3:02pm

Cyrano de Bergerac
Set Design by Peter J. Davison
Directed by Francesca Zambello
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antz
#136re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 3:13pm

Billy Elliot (London)

Wicked

Sunday In The Park With George (revival)

Sweeney Todd (Original)

An Inspector Calls (loved when the house collapsed...didn't see that coming)

Shrek (If only the music worked as well as the set...the set is not "spectacular" like YF or LK, but it works very well)...like a cross between Spamalot and Beauty and the Beast

Spring Awakening (the simplicity works)

Show Boat (revival)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (best use of projections until SITPWG)

Oliver (London)

Witches of Eastwick (London)

Hairspray

My list of worst sets: Cats, Starlight Express, Follies (revival), Woman in White (projections and moving walls were too distracting)


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#137re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 3:23pm

Rebecca
Set Design by Peter J. Davison
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#138re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 3:49pm

I am very much a fan of musicals, so maybe when I see a play the sets stand out more to me. Two that really impressed me were The Ritz, all those doors reaching to the sky, the depths of the hallways, I was in the front row and I was amazed.

I also thought Amadeus had a great set.

RentBoy86
#139re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:56pm

Rebecca is beautiful. What is that show about?

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#140re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 9:49pm

Does anyone have pictures from the set design for the OBC of Mame. I love this show but have rarely seen anything from the OBC.

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#141re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 10:31pm

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1967 - Cabaret - Boris Aronson

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#142re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 10:45pm

Definitely Beauty and The Beast! Here is a picture of my favorite part: The beast and the rose.

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and one other pic that I found:

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I wish I could find a picture of the castle. That was magical!


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#143re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 11:14pm

A set that is a birds-eye-view! How awesome is that???

The Imaginary Invalid
Set Design by Beowulf Boritt
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My Oh My
#144re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:26am

I LOVE John Napier's Les Mis set.

When people talk about his set, they usually refer to the barricade or the turntable. However, I absolutely love the main set--the grey, brick walls, and scattered windows. It's ugly, but at the same time, I think it's beautiful. The overhanging wall upstage, framed by the cylindrical brick walls and supporting, wooden beams. I LOVE IT!!

(Btw, how do you post a pic on this forum??? I tried both the HTML and forum code and it doesn't work!! I have a really cool pic to share. I use Photobucket, btw.)


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#145re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/14/08 at 10:33am

my oh my, if you are using photobucket just copy the "direct link" under the photo and paste it in your message. That's how I do it.


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ThankstoPhantom
#146re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/14/08 at 12:57pm

Peter J. Davison is a fantastic designer.

Maria Bjornson's work on The Phantom of the Opera deserves every award and accolade it has received. Absolutely brilliant designs. (Photos below are from the Copenhagen production, reopening from January-May 2009...http://www.detnyteater.dk/flora/flora.asp?page=13502)

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BlogwayBaby
#147re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/14/08 at 1:14pm

The Secret Garden hands down. Absolutely stunning set.

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#148re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/14/08 at 1:22pm

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13...
that's the opening set, they got better as the show went on...


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bwayfan9
#149re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:46pm

WIW! the set for 13 looks AMAZING. I thought for sure this would be a small production.


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