Fave Scene Designers?- Page 3

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 9:44am

John Lee Beatty for his enormous output and more specifically his collaborations on the Lanford Wilson plays.

Edward Gorey for, well, Dracula.

Santo Loquasto.

Posted: 5/27/07 at 9:07pm

I love George Tsypin!

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 10:34pm

Santo Loquasto
Eugene Lee
Bob Crowley (if you , like me pretend tarzan was just a very bad dream and doesn't really exist)
David Rockwell
Robin Wagner

Posted: 5/28/07 at 6:50pm

bump I wish more designers had their own webpages with examples of their work

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 8:04pm

I wish more productions would photograph full stage shots, but...

I gotta admit, I'm a bit torn on Crowley. His smaller, non-musical work is amazing, but he seems to run hot and cold when it comes to the big musicals. CAROUSEL was amazing, but AIDA was a scenic trainwreck with no consistent through-line. And TARZAN... well, 'nuff said already, I suppose.

Tsypin is another quandry. I love the arid, almost cerebral look of his stuff, but it's sometimes *so* cerebral that it's disconnected from the rest of the production, as was the case with MAGIC FLUTE, in which it almost seemed he and Taynor were in different theatres when they were designing this production. And when you look at the things in his retrospective book, some of it is absolutely bewildering. The RING cycle is a coup, no doubt about it, but the VANESSA with the giant antique glass bottles? I have no idea what he was trying to do there. He's fasinated by line and form and material, but I sometimes wonder if it's gone beyond fascination and into obsession.

Posted: 5/28/07 at 8:23pm

I saw the PBS airing of FLute and have to agree--the deisngs really seemed at odds with each other...

And yeah--I reallythink every souvenir program should have at least ONE decent shot of the overall stage/set layout for one scene. There are several great productions where it's near impossible to see clearly (for ages I was trying to see what Bjornson did with her FOllies set but purchasing the original souvenir program didn't help much...)

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[Mealz1042]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 8:32pm

dont know the names but whoever did grey gardens and in the heights did incredible jobs.

[stonewall2]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 8:34pm

Cecil Beaton, even though he was much better known for his costuming, he did do seom set design.

[BreakingTheCircle07]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 8:51pm

George Tsypin and Scott Pask.

[retrogirl44]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 10:34pm

hands down, Boris Aronson. # 1
Also: Tony Walton
Robin Wagner
Ming Cho Lee

[Copeman63]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 2:00am

I've always been blown away by Eugene Lee's work.

[theatreprof]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:02pm

Bill and Jean are among some of the most heralded designers of the fifties and sixties. They were talented scenic and costume designers often working on both aspects. They worked with Julie Andrews & Liza Minnelli before anyone knew who they were and gave Carol Burnett her first real break (In Once Upon a Mattress which they also produced). I had the privilege of retrieving the original images from dusty garbage bags where they had been stored in Bill and Jeans garage for years. the idea for the book came about after we displayed his work at USITT in 1995. Bill was a great mentor and a sweet man. Sadly, I never met Jean she passed away before I transferred to Southern Methodist University for grad school. Apparently, Mame was a big surprise for them other shows that they had done in a similar vein had failed, but the timing was right for a traditional show. I guess traditional seems boring when you've been trying to innovate. Nonetheless, I never experienced Bill as a negative person. Sarcastic and witty yes...Brilliant with color yes! And the title of the book is dead on. the designs you see on Broadway today in terms of scene shifts are the visual grandchildren of the Eckarts. Of course they get my vote.