Nederlander renovation

I got a chance to see all the photos from the renovation at work today. I must say, it was pretty crazy. Apparently the investors of the show are in the charge of the restoration of the theater back to it's original condition. I always thought it was the theater owner who paid for that.

When RENT closed, the rentheads had to be shooed away from the dumpsters because they were taking everything, from a drum stick all the way to pieces of the chopped up metal sculpture. And the back autograph wall was NOT saved.. which is pretty sad considering it had Stevie Wonder's autograph on it.

The autograph wall was ABSOLUTELY saved, it's still there.

People will save anything that has to do with Broadway, either for their personal collections or with the hope of selling it. There was a thread on here last week about somebody taking pieces of Broadway posters from closed shows out of the garbage in Shubert Alley.

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Ok so really I should have asked this in the last thread at the time, but I didnt think of it at the time.

Those broken plates and stuff around the pros-arch in rent, that was done by some artist (cant remember his name)

Was that considered part of the rent set?
Was something similar used on the tour if it was considered part of the set?
If it was not part of rent, was it part of the theatre and still there today?

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Thanks for the trenchant information. I'll sleep better tonight.

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"There was a thread on here last week about somebody taking pieces of Broadway posters from closed shows out of the garbage in Shubert Alley."

That just reminded me... does anybody remember the poster a year ago who took the 9 to 5 marquee after its closing and tried to sell it on ebay for $300? Does he/she still post here? I remember that person also supposedly had the marquee of the Sweeney Todd revival.