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Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#25re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:15pmWell, if the mask is to be considered as part of the costume for the Phantom, I nominate the monkey music box as the prop.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#26re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:30pmI suppose the chandelier in Phantom is also a setpiece then.
Colle
Broadway Star Joined: 2/13/06
#27re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:37pmThe candleholders/sticks in "Les Miserables."
SMiller
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/04
#28re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:48pm
I know there are special effects crews for shows but only when they set up. Are there running crews that just do special effects?
SMiller
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#29re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:52pm
SMiller, bebe, are you in the right thread?
I agree with the candlesticks in Les Mis (in Beauty and the Beast it's a costume).
Updated On: 8/3/06 at 03:52 PM
SMiller
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/04
#30re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:56pm
Yes, I am responding to a previous post.
The Distinctive Baritone wrote....
Sometimes it is a fine line between "prop" and "set piece." I've actually seen the matter discussed at rehearsals--"Should this be handled by the set designer or the props master?" Generally though, stuff that you can sit on, lay on, drive, etc. is a set piece, as are especially large objects that are permanantly fixed to the set (like a table or piano). Smaller objects (especially those that are held by a character) are props. Also, the props master will often handle the set decorations as well (i.e. a vase of flowers on the table).
But these are just general guidelines...also, things like the Audrey II puppett, the chandelier in "Phantom" and the helicopter in "Miss Saigon" would probably go under the "special effects" category and be handled by a seperate person/department entirely.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#32re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 4:05pmThe Phantom's mask is a costume piece, and was designed by the costume designer (who also happened to be the set designer, the late Maria Bjornson.
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#33re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 5:09pmInto the Woods... the cow as white as milk, hair as yellow as corn, slippers as pure as gold.... and the beans (if real props were used)
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#35re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:18pm
The blue blanket in the Producers was the first to come to mind
The yellow scarf in 42nd Street
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
missyrose87
Stand-by Joined: 2/4/06
#36re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:22pmI think the green bottle in Wicked is more important than the hat or wizard head...
#39re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:35pmuh, the whole diary thing was added for the movie. That's not in the stage show. Neither is Billy's tap dance, Velma at the trial, and Roxie looking for a job.
#40re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:50pm
Oops.
Anyway:
Cinderella's slippers, or maybe the well?
bcectchc
Chorus Member Joined: 4/6/05
#41re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 8:00pmWhat about the soccer ball in Light in the Piazza?!?!?
#42re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 8:04pm
Some of you are naming set pieces instead of props.
B and the B - Rose/mirror
Wicked- hat
aida- necklace
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#43re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 8:09pmCorkscrew Slide - Mack & Mabel
Poster Emeritus
#44re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:58pm
A Little Night Music - a letter delivered by hand.
Sweeney - Pirelli's purse.
Pippin - the knife.
Piazza - Clara's hat.
and MOST importantly....
Gypsy - eggrolls!
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#45re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:59pm
Reefers in Reefer Madness
Roger's dressed The Producers
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
LadyLizaElliott
Swing Joined: 5/21/06
#46re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:07pm
First one I could think of:
Fosco's Certificate from WOMAN IN WHITE, or else the characters wouldn't have a clue where they were going, and his address card, and Laura's portrait.
NOISES OFF- Sardines!
MY FAIR LADY- Henry Higgin's pair of slippers
PASSION- All of the letters they write back and forth
WITCHES OF EASTWICK- The voodoo doll and bowl of cherries
JOSEPH/TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT- the "precious golden cup"
WEST SIDE STORY- the weapons for the rumble, Chino's gun
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#47re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:09pm
Joseph - the Technicolor coat
Pageant - The tiara
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#48re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:20pmDorothy's shoes in the Wizard of Oz.
#49re: Most Important Prop in Each Show?
Posted: 8/4/06 at 12:09am
I wouldn't call these the most important but they're significant.
The Hairspray in Hairspray
The numbers around each contestents neck in Spelling Bee
The Wheelchair in DRS
The blue suede shoes in ASU
The rose-B&TB
The Princess Phones-Bye Bye Birdie
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