42nd Street with No Sets... Suggestions.

Hey everyone, I need some suggestions on how to effectively stage a production of 42nd street with no sets or backdrops. We have no budget or labor for sets and only conventional lighting.

I will however have props, (including the dimes and large quarter) and some furniture pieces. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Can you define "conventional lighting"?

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Do THE FANTASTICKS.

Have you considered NOISES OFF?

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Last summer I saw a decent production of 42d Street at the Chichester Festival just outside of London. If I recall correctly, they used a thrust stage, no curtain, and the set was minimal. However, they did have a huge trap door that enabled the dancers to have some dramatic entrances rising out of the stage floor. You might get some helpful advice from the folks who mounted that production.

Get an old movie projector and show black&white footage behind the actors. Have two people, fully viosable, working the projectors. Make it a tribute to old time movies.

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Make a wall of whiteboards and have someone literally dray the scenery with erasable markers and line drawings in the bg.

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Use an old-time slide projector with period photos you can get from onlne and turn into slides.

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See if anone has access to a widescreen TV projector (lots of people used to have them in their basements) and then make a mixtape of footage from New York in the 30s. (The Prelinger Collection has TONS of royalty free stuff downloadable in high resolution.

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If there's no budget, then what will their costumes look like?? T-shirts & dockers and have them spray painted with glitter for "Money" & the Ballet?

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