Sets you enjoy? — Page 2

#26

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 9:34pm

An Inspector Calls

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#27

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 10:18pm

My favorites have all been mentioned, but I really love the sets of Aida, Wicked and Fiddler.

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#28

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 10:39pm

this may be a dumb question but what did they do different between the Broadway and tour sets of Titanic? I only saw the tour.

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#29

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 10:54pm

millie
oklahoma(except when they show the house straight on and you realize how slanted it is to show forced perspective

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#30

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 11:06pm

Les Miserables & Wicked!

#31

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 11:06pm

The topic is "sets you ENJOY" not "Your FAV. set(s)"

I have 3 main ones that I loved:
1. WICKED- I LOVED how they incorperated the dragon clock stage with the show.

2. RENT- its one set, with diff. areas, used multiple times for diff. places, and draws you to focus on the story, meanings, characters, and everything else

3. Gypsy(w/ Bernie)- I thought the set was VERY appropreate. Since it is about a stge mother, and the back was the back stage( or something like that) I thought it was a very good choice!

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#32

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 11:38pm

The Producers. Maybe it's just because I got to tour this set that makes me like it or maybe it's the hilarious old "ads" in Bialystock's office...or maybe i'm just an old sentimental fool...

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#33

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 11:41pm

Rent's is so under appreciated. People look at it and say "Ew, it's just brick", but it's so beautiful. Wicked, though, holds the spot for my all time favorite set.

#34

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 11:42pm

The garbage sculpture in RENT is amazing

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#35

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 11:43pm

rent
wicked
42nd street!!!!

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#36

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/26/05 at 11:58pm

Well, considering I'm currently on a RENT and Cary Shields high (Just came back from a full Saturday at NYC... and saw RENT, obviously), I'd have to say that set is greatly underappreciated.

I love how it's intentionally ghetto, heh.

Avenue Q's is just awesome.

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#37

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:06am

I have always loved the sets in Beauty and the Beast. Also enjoy the Avenue Q set -- the buildings there are extremely realistic.

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#38

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:12am

Wicked
B n B
Brooklyn
Lion King
A Christmas Carol

#39

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:36am

* THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

* WICKED

* THE KING AND I (revival)

* SHOW BOAT (revival)

* CATS

#40

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 8:40am

The ones that really stand out are Avenue Q, Rent, Little Women, Little Shop (the latest revival) and Mary Poppins (which I just saw last night)

-Grace

#41

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:12am

NINE (original and revival)
Fiddler on the Roof (revival)
Wicked
Private Lives (revival)
Sweeney Todd
Gorey Stories
Pacific Overtures (revival)
The Heiress

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#42

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:31am

An Inspector Calls
Little Shop of Horrors
Avenue Q
Wicked
The Royal Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Nights Dream
Aida
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Tommy
Ragtime
City of Angels

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#43

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:35am

The Boris Aronson sets for Fiddler, Company, Follies and A Little Night Music told you what the show was about just as much as the book, lyrics and music.

There is a coffee table book about his sets with a text by Frank Rich. It's worth hunting down.

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#44

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:36am

Aida
I also really thought that the set for Rocky Horror Show was very fun.

#45

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:37am

Sunset Blvd....(not the tour) was one of the most beautiful sets I've ever seen on stage. Very ornate and detailed. If I think of sets, that's the one show that made my jaw drop.

#46

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:29am

I'm a set junkie... I loved Sunset Boulevard, Showboat (Revival), Aida had gorgeous use of color, but that was mainly aided by the stunning lighting... Take Me Out was very cool.

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#47

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 11:40am

AIDA!! ,gypsy was cool, and Wickeds OK, and AIDA!!

#48

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 11:45am

phantom! and i recently saw piazza and that was amazing. the set walls and props shifted in complete silence. les miserables's rotating platform was pretty cool too

#49

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:55pm

*Wicked
*Phantom - the sets are so beautiful!

#50

re: Sets you enjoy?

Posted: 3/27/05 at 2:49pm

Platinum
Sunday in the Park With George
Phantom (New York)
Showboat (revival tour)
A Chorus Line (Bare stage and the mirrors for the finale)
Assassins (Revival)
Caroline or Change
Annie (Original)
Sunset Blvd. (Tour)
A Raisin in the Sun (revival last year)

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