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Favorite Set Designs
#250re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/8/09 at 8:38am
The 1974 Candide was one of my first Broadway shows and still ranks as one of my top theatrical experiences I've ever had. The production was magical and just plain fun. I rmember when I was watching it, I never wanted it to end.
Unfortunately when it was revived , Hal Prince used His NYCO production and did not try to reproduce the in the round experience.
Pity.
Updated On: 1/8/09 at 08:38 AM
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#252re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/12/09 at 12:25amagain, thank you for the Candide photos. I remember this show well. It was so much fun!
#253re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/16/09 at 9:19pm
I really loved the set for 'Equus'. It simply works beautfully for the piece. I love it's combination of horse-stable wood planking with the upper balcony to suggest a surgeon's viewing level. I also love the use of gray, a rare color in set design.
#254re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/16/09 at 10:57pm
I just received my DVD of Cyrano De Bergerac in the mail today (Kevin Kline was amazing by the way!), and the sets were beautiful!
Very simple changes for each act, but they were really effective. I especially loved the balcony scene (with the white curtain serving as the house, and the moon in the background) and the battle scene (with the torn up curtain and fallen timbers)
#255re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/18/09 at 5:59pmShameless plug alert. Here is one of my designs, which happens to be my favorite out of my work. It is from a production of "Songs for a New World." Check out my other work at http://www.johnzuiker.com
"Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible." - - Thomas Jefferson.
Updated On: 1/18/09 at 05:59 PM
#256re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/18/09 at 6:02pm
Lets try the pic again. 
"Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible." - - Thomas Jefferson.
Updated On: 1/18/09 at 06:02 PM
#257re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/18/09 at 6:17pmThe set of Wicked is by far my favorite. Always so vibrant and elaborate at points.
"It doesn't work when you lick it!"
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#258re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/18/09 at 7:01pm
What? No more Woman in White set love?!!
Woman in White
Broadway & London, 2004-6
Video Projection & Co-Set Designer William Dudley:
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(the show's "Curtain" from what I can remember!)
And some of the backdrops that were projected onto the screen (c/o Livedesignonline.com)
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Among others.....
And of course the Man himself: Dudley on stage within the complicated designs of the stage itself:
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#259re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/18/09 at 7:59pm
oh my GOD. those pics from the Bregenz Festival are unbelievable. I literally gasped when I saw the one for Boheme. how do they DO that?!
and I love the In the Heights set. while I agree that it is pretty simple & there's not much to it, I think what makes it amazing is the lighting. it's pretty spectacular, from what I remember 
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#260re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:00pm
"Unfortunately, with, O, being the "water" show and, Love, being the "Beatles" show, KA hasn't received the attention it truly deserves. (Please know that I am a great fan of both O and Love as well as Mystere and even Zumanity.) "
Robert LePage did Ka didn't he? his installations, opers and plays are always visually breathtaking.
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#261re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:03pm
The Lion King
Phantom of the opera
hairspray
Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#262re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/19/09 at 10:35pm
LePage did do KA. And, I agree, he's an amazing talent. There is a wonderful DVD, KA Extreme, which explores the process of creating KA. LePage is interviewed extensively and his vision is just brilliant.
Again... for anyone who has the opportunity to be in Las Vegas, go see KA!
Updated On: 1/19/09 at 10:35 PM
#263re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/31/09 at 3:37pmanyone have pics of 9 to 5set?
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#264re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/31/09 at 4:07pm
This is really all I could find for 9 to 5. The pictures don't really show off the set.
*EDIT*
I couldn't get the pictures any smaller, so just go to the website:
http://www.9to5themusical.com/media.php
Updated On: 1/31/09 at 04:07 PM
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#265re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/31/09 at 4:10pmWhat's more amazing is the set transitions. They literally can transform from an office setting to a parking lot to Violet's house to Hart's bedroom in about a minute.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#266re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/31/09 at 4:27pmKA was probably the worst show I've ever seen. Don't let the amazing commercials and "making-of" fool you. It was just plain boring, the theatre was burning hot (literally- the stage was a pit of fire at the beginning), the mingling acrobats at the beginning were annoying, and most of the visuals and acrobatics were very disappointing, especially compared to the magnificent O. It did have its moments, though.
#267re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/31/09 at 5:09pm
John Arnone
The Full Monty
The Eugene O’Neill Theater 
#268re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 1/31/09 at 5:25pmI agree, the set (and, for that matter, everything else) for KA was fantastic! As was the set for Love.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
morosco
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duffny1
Understudy Joined: 9/20/08
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#274re: Favorite Set Designs
Posted: 2/1/09 at 12:39am
morosco, thanks for the pics of Dreamgirls!
I've been looking for pictures of that set for a while, but have never found anything. 
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