Broadway's largest set desgin
Broadway's largest set desgin
#1Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/12/12 at 9:59pmI've heard that my fair lady's set was so big! Same with the latest revival of the King and I
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#2Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/12/12 at 10:15pmI would think Broadway's largest set design would be a tie between CATS and STARLIGHT EXPRESS.
#2Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/12/12 at 10:18pm
Only because of ALW's huge and impressive...
... ego.
MattDe
Understudy Joined: 11/7/12
#3Broadway's largest set desgin
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 Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#4Broadway's largest set desgin
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????"
#5Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/12/12 at 11:26pmWyn: Reminds me of Match game! Dumb Dora was so dumb. "How dumb was she?"
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#6Broadway's largest set desgin
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
#7Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/12/12 at 11:37pmYou changed it! Updated On: 11/12/12 at 11:37 PM
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#8Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 12:46amOff Broadway [Title of Show] and the Barrow Street "Our Town" had the biggest sets that I have seen.
#9Broadway's largest set desgin
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 Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#10Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 1:00amI think those were suggested in jest, Jungle
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#11Broadway's largest set desgin
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 Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#12Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 1:04amJungle 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.
#13Broadway's largest set desgin
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 Legend Joined: 12/1/09
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#15Broadway's largest set desgin
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.)
#16Broadway's largest set desgin
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.
#17Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:03amWouldn't you have to include Sunset Blvd in the conversation? I know just the house itself had to be controlled by a hydraulic lift.
#18Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:11amI'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.
#19Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 9:14amArguable Aida, the one tht didn't make it to Broadway.
#20Broadway's largest set desgin
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 Star Joined: 5/6/11
#21Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 9:26amwhat 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......
#22Broadway's largest set desgin
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.
#23Broadway's largest set desgin
Posted: 11/13/12 at 6:33pmThe house in Mary Poppins is also really big!
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#24Broadway's largest set desgin
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.
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