Broadway's largest set desgin

[Gmerchant123]

Broadway's largest set desgin#1

Posted: 11/12/12 at 9:59pm

I've heard that my fair lady's set was so big! Same with the latest revival of the King and I

[morosco]

Broadway's largest set desgin#2

Posted: 11/12/12 at 10:15pm

I would think Broadway's largest set design would be a tie between CATS and STARLIGHT EXPRESS.

[Jungle Red]

Broadway's largest set desgin#2

Posted: 11/12/12 at 10:18pm

Only because of ALW's huge and impressive...



... ego.

[MattDe]

Broadway's largest set desgin#3

Posted: 11/12/12 at 11:09pm

ALW does have a huge ego but he did get a TONY which was possibly due to well nothing else playing.

Updated On: 11/12/12 at 11:09 PM

[Wynbish]

Broadway's largest set desgin#4

Posted: 11/12/12 at 11:12pm

I've heard that my fair lady's set was so big!

Can't decide if that's a "That's what she said!" or a classic "How big was it????"

[Jungle Red]

Broadway's largest set desgin#5

Posted: 11/12/12 at 11:26pm

Wyn: Reminds me of Match game! Dumb Dora was so dumb. "How dumb was she?"

[Wynbish]

Broadway's largest set desgin#6

Posted: 11/12/12 at 11:32pm

The set was so big, it made blank look tiny

Updated On: 11/12/12 at 11:32 PM

[Jungle Red]

Broadway's largest set desgin#7

Posted: 11/12/12 at 11:37pm

You changed it! Updated On: 11/12/12 at 11:37 PM

[SondheimFan5]

Broadway's largest set desgin#8

Posted: 11/13/12 at 12:46am

Off Broadway [Title of Show] and the Barrow Street "Our Town" had the biggest sets that I have seen.

[Jungle Red]

Broadway's largest set desgin#9

Posted: 11/13/12 at 12:55am

"Our Town" doesn't have a set. I googled it but didn't find anything except posters and pictures of the cast. What did they do differently?

[Wynbish]

Broadway's largest set desgin#10

Posted: 11/13/12 at 1:00am

I think those were suggested in jest, Jungle

[AEA AGMA SM]

Broadway's largest set desgin#11

Posted: 11/13/12 at 1:01am

""Our Town" doesn't have a set. I googled it but didn't find anything except posters and pictures of the cast. What did they do differently?"

[SondheimFan5]

Broadway's largest set desgin#12

Posted: 11/13/12 at 1:04am

Jungle Red - the Barrow Street had a fabulous design by the folks who design Cirque de Soleil. Instead of 2 step-ladders, Emily and George were each on their own trapeze. It was one for the ages, really. Flying by Foy took Emily back to Heaven at the end of the play. It was like Spider Man meets Mary Poppins.

[Jungle Red]

Broadway's largest set desgin#13

Posted: 11/13/12 at 1:07am

I don't often post on serious Broadway threads, so I don't know who the joksters are and who aren't. It looks like it wasn't made in jest, as SondheimFan5 last post describes a pretty big set.

I adore Our Town.

[chewy5000]

Broadway's largest set desgin#14

Posted: 11/13/12 at 2:29am

Ha!

[dramamama611]

Broadway's largest set desgin#15

Posted: 11/13/12 at 6:03am

Thud.

(It was a joke, as was his next response. Although I'd go and see that Our Town, too.)

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[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Broadway's largest set desgin#16

Posted: 11/13/12 at 7:50am

I've been trying to find the thread it was mentioned in, but a few years ago another poster mentioned a Broadway show where the director was in the audience when the set was first revealed to him. He was impatient because the actors weren't on stage yet. He asked something along the lines of "Where are the actors?" to which they responded from stage "We are here!" From what I remember they decided then and there that the set was overkill.

Can anyone help me out? I can't remember the name of the show.

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[castlestreet]

Broadway's largest set desgin#17

Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:03am

Wouldn't you have to include Sunset Blvd in the conversation? I know just the house itself had to be controlled by a hydraulic lift.

[ucjrdude902]

Broadway's largest set desgin#18

Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:11am

I'd say Phantom and even Legally Blonde were a pretty big set. Hints the reason Blonde could only fit in the Palace and limited their option of a transfer.

[Phantom of London]

Broadway's largest set desgin#19

Posted: 11/13/12 at 9:14am

Arguable Aida, the one tht didn't make it to Broadway.

[Yero my Hero]

Broadway's largest set desgin#20

Posted: 11/13/12 at 9:23am

SPIDER-MAN pretty much has to be in this conversation. I'd also put YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN as one of the largest sets I have ever seen.

BILLY ELLIOT closed down the Imperial Theatre for something like six months gutting it so they could install the stairs that revolve up from under the stage.

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[ajh]

Broadway's largest set desgin#21

Posted: 11/13/12 at 9:26am

what about the original Ragtime? or the original Sweeney? weren't they both Eugene Lee. "he doesn't know less is more" as Tommy Tune said about Ken Russell . Ok am rambling now......

[Nickhutson]

Broadway's largest set desgin#22

Posted: 11/13/12 at 5:39pm

British shows: Starlight, Cats, Phantom, Mary Poppins, Sunset Boulevard.

US Productions: Ragtime, BIg, Beauty and the Beast all spring to mind.

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[supersam1026]

Broadway's largest set desgin#23

Posted: 11/13/12 at 6:33pm

The house in Mary Poppins is also really big!

[Hank]

Broadway's largest set desgin#24

Posted: 11/13/12 at 6:45pm

Haha! those comments abour Barrow St "Our House" bring to my mind my classroom read through in high school, and the sets were similar, but in my mind, each time, I pictured myself in a small NH town, just over the Massachusets line.
It worked.