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.
http://docandraider.com
I wish more designers had their own webpages with examples of their work
