Les Mis - Scenery?
Les Mis - Scenery?
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#0Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:40pmAnyone know if they are planning on going with the original Broadway concept or the new decked out version in London?
#1re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:43pmOK, I'll bite...what's the new decked out version?
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BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#2re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:44pmI believe they built way more of the set into the audience and i remember reading something about there being a full scale ballroom for the weddign and such. I am gonna try and find the artical.
#3re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:45pmI may be wrong, but I think they are just bringing the tour production set to Broadway since the tour just ended
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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#4re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:53pm
Which begs the question, what set did the tour version have? THE PUBLIC NEED TO KNOW!?!
Anyway, back to my calm voice, the London set used in the Queens theatre is not noticably different to the one used at the Palace for all those years. The Ballroom isn't really a ballroom, it's just the normal stage without the barricades, like 'On My Own', but instead of the shutter lights in the background they have this thingy which makes it look like there is a kind of semi-circular end to the room, hard to describe. Not really remarkable though. I hope the tour version isn't much different, I LOVE the London version, I've never seen it in the States.
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browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#5re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:53pm
Here is the article talkign about the changes in the London Production.
Les Misérables Reopens at London's Queen's with Substantial Redesigns
#6re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:09pmFrom seeing it in London in May, I remember the "ballroom" being exactly the same as it always was, except for a back-wall projection of a ballroom wall and windows. The "audience" portion of the set was simlply sewer openings and alcoves on each side of the stage, where there are typically just grey brick wall pieces. Cast members used these sometimes as entrances and exits.
#7re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:18pmI have heard that they are actually going to bring in the tour set and install in at the Broadhurst.
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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#8re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:20pmAgain I ask the floor, what's the tour version set like?!?!?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#9re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:24pmImitation cobblestone floor, with revolve, barricades, gate, background with shutters, and other pieces such as tables brought on as needed.
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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#10re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:25pmOk so it's pretty much London. Do the tables get carried on by stage hands or do they come around on the revolve?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#11re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:27pmI haven't seen LM in London since it moved from the Palace, but the sets at that point were pretty much identical. There was some slightly different blocking with the actors, but I don't remember anything different happening with the sets.
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#12re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:33pmvmlinnie, When I have seen the tour, the tables are set on the revolve or are set behind the scrim, which is used to display time and place, etc (I'm sure they have the same thing in London, but I've never seen it there)...the actors are not seen bringing out the set pieces.
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-- William Shakespeare***
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#13re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:35pmI feel silly for starting this thread. From reading the article i assumed there was like some HUGE face lift to the production.
#14re: Les Mis - Scenery?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:36pmYeah, I was expecting the same thing in London, but it wasn't all that different -- except maybe for the Les Mis freaks like me who've seen show more than 20 times.
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