#176
Posted: 9/25/10 at 9:38pm
I get it Humbug, the economy is certainly tight. But I said I was hoping for innovative sets, not expensive sets. Innovation in fact, is often the child of a tight budget.
I see a ground row of cornstalks, a cyclorama, a tower of some sort, and a couple of truck sets. To me that doesn't say finances are lacking, it says imagination is lacking.
People say they like the tent set. I'm assuming that's much better. But from what I gather from the production photos, most of the show takes place in front of the corn.
I don't think the Broadway production will have a new designer. These sets are by Robin Wagner: we're talking On The Twentieth Century, the original Dreamgirls, and and about 40 or 50 other shows. Some genius work there.
I see a ground row of cornstalks, a cyclorama, a tower of some sort, and a couple of truck sets. To me that doesn't say finances are lacking, it says imagination is lacking.
People say they like the tent set. I'm assuming that's much better. But from what I gather from the production photos, most of the show takes place in front of the corn.
I don't think the Broadway production will have a new designer. These sets are by Robin Wagner: we're talking On The Twentieth Century, the original Dreamgirls, and and about 40 or 50 other shows. Some genius work there.
He has a fair amount of choreography he has to do during the show, especially in Last Chance Salvation. And I also agree with your observations about Rob Ashford. Even setting aside artistic considerations, however subjective they may be, the simple fact remains that he's not physically capable of mounting two shows at the same time. He can do How To or Leap, there simply isn't enough time to do both. If he tried to do something superhuman and attempt it, I'd be afraid that something would lose out. I'd rather Leap waited a season to get to New York than run that risk. 
