Favorite Set Designs- Page 8

[tellybox]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 6:31pm

All of these set designs are so beautiful. Really inspiring.

Does anyone have a picture of the set design for the title song of Beauty & The Beast? I've never seen it, and it's always intrigued me.

[Tag]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 7:03pm

Anyone have Crazy for You designs? (set or costume?)

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 11:39pm

I'd love to see "Awake and Sing" or any other straight play on Broadway.

[Belleof14thStreet]

Posted: 12/22/08 at 5:09pm

I think that John Lee Beatty has created SO many thrilling sets for Manhattan Theatre Club.

Rabbit Hole
Absurd Person Singular
Mauritius
Proof

I wasn't a huge fan of the play Absurd Person Singular, but the way in which he created three completely different, gigantic, detailed, sets on that relatively small stage completely amazed me!

Rabbit Hole was another triumph using rotation. Stunning. I wish I had pictures to post.

Anyone?

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 12/22/08 at 5:13pm

If you want to see a stage set, you want to see the revival of Sunset Boulevard in London, its just a stage, with a rotating staircase, complete contrast to the original.

However still a great and effective production.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 12/22/08 at 7:38pm

I was jst looking back on the first page at the Sunday In The Park With George revival set and how amazing it was. That was a great production, possibly one of my favorite productions of al time. The set was just amazing and so was the cast and everything. Over this past year of all the shows I saw I would go back and see one show I would see Sunday in the Park With George.

Sorry, back on topic.

[LaMusicaVa]

Posted: 12/22/08 at 9:23pm

I love some of Oliver Smith's designs - look at the original interior for the von Trapp house in The Sound of Music:

http://www.rnh.com/gallery_detail.asp?div=gallery&gid=2992&action=&id=2992&s=s

Exterior: http://www.rnh.com/gallery_detail.asp?div=gallery&gid=2999&action=&id=2999&s=s

His design for the Professor's study in My Fair Lady: http://julieandrewsforum.com/pictures/displayimage.php?album=118&pos=55

Covent Garden: http://julieandrewsforum.com/pictures/displayimage.php?album=118&pos=58

I thought The Light In The Piazza was amazing. It was practically one set and yet it created the impression of so many different locations with just little changes. The lighting was amazing too.

[Mark_E]

Posted: 12/22/08 at 9:57pm

Anyone got pics of the original Sunset Set?

Heard so much about it but cant find pics.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 12/22/08 at 11:11pm

I can't believe noone has mentioned "Cats" yet.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 12/22/08 at 11:16pm

recently? I'd have to say either Sunday in the Park with George or South Pacific. I really liked the design for Billy Elliot, too, but I was afraid the bedroom set piece was going to collapse.

and re: the original Sunset set...there are clips on that site, some of questionable quality, I'll admit. but my personal favorite is one of LuPone singing The Lady's Paying complete with the Charlie Chaplin imitation. why that was cut, I'll never understand.

anyway, the set is gargantuan and more than slightly tacky. and the quality of this clip is terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOb_99kEScE

[Justin D]

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:52am

I'm quite impressed with the concentric/offset turntables (one inside the other, about 3 or 4 in all) in Shrek, they move so beautifully.

[bwaybri2]

Posted: 12/23/08 at 4:28pm

I thought the mechanics behind Titanic were impressive -

any other examples of a set getting applause? -

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/23/08 at 7:54pm

What about when the drawbridge came down in Dance of the Vampires

[AbbyNormal13]

Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:40pm

I think the Young Frankenstein set is amazing.
Young Frankenstein

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:08pm

Updated On: 6/2/09 at 09:08 PM

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:59pm

thanks sondheim! Love your design as well. Keep posting guys:)!!

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 12/23/08 at 11:07pm

South Pacific, Grey Gardens, The Light in the Piazza, Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 4:16am

OBC of Cabaret by Boris Aronson. Note the floor mikes.

God, even in 1966, this story of dashed hopes and Nazi malice was presented with storybook settings.

Updated On: 12/26/08 at 04:16 AM

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 11:16am

Sondheimgeek,

Thats cool! I was scouring your photobucket account and saw a design with the torn up Union Jack in the background...whats that for? that looks REALLY cool.

Akiva

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 12:43pm

The design for the 2006 Lincoln Center Theatre revival of Awake and Sing! was stunning and breathtaking in simple yet eloquent ways. Oh the chills of sitting first row. Glorious!

Here's the Bartlett Sher-narrated New York Times slideshow, "Revisiting Odets."
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/05/16/theater/20060417_SHER_AUDIOSS.html

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:04pm

Aw thanks for the compliment Akiva!

The torn Union Jack was for a production of King Lear. It was to give the illusion that the monarchy was surviving, when in fact it wasn't. From far away the eye sees the Union Jack, but from close up it just looks like a bunch of pies of colored fabric. It's all pinned onto erosion cloth. The stage itself is surrounded with different kinds of "rubble" to show the deteriation of the kingdom. The production was at an outdoor theatre, so the erosion cloth worked perfectly.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 2:30pm

Just a few scenic designs that others may find interesting:

Peter Larkin's Rendeing for 'The Rink'


Loren Sherman's designs for 'Shogun'


(This second one is not the best quality, but it is an idea of what the 'ship' looked like)



And just because I adore Boris Aronson's designs, here's a rendering for 'Cabaret'

Updated On: 12/26/08 at 02:30 PM

[Candleshoe2]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 4:48pm

SHOW BOAT at Royal Albert Hall

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 5:05pm

The design for SHOWBOAT actually made me gasp. Holy ****.

[willrogers2008]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 5:09pm

Oh my God ! When this SHOWBOAT production happened ?