Sets you enjoy? — Page 3

I loved Democracy's two-story set. It was so perfect for 1960's West Germany. I also enjoyed how the ruins set of Julius Caesar spread into the Belasco Theatre to make it seem as though we were in the play.

What do ya mean the ruins set spilled into the Belasco? It sounds cool, just trying to visualize.

Well I had never seen a show in the Belasco before so I don't know if it was already like this, but the fronts of the mezzanine boxes were ripped out and made to look exactly like the set and they also removed almost all of the chairs from them. At certain points throughout the show (during the funeral speeches for Caesar by Brutus and Marc Antony in particular) the actors march on-stage by way of the orchestra aisles and some of them actors watch the action on stage from the boxes and they can even enter and exit the stage from the boxes so from the orchestra. In the orchestra surrounded by actors on the stage and in the boxes and in the aisles, during the funeral orations, you feel very immersed in the show.

Another two sets I would have to say I enjoyed are The Pillowman and Twelve Angry Men sets. In the Pillowman, the oppressively drab interrogation room was pitch-perfect and the cutaways that told the stories were very inventively done. The two-part Twelve Angry Men set was very life-like.

Updated On: 3/27/05 at 06:20 PM

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=83874#83874

An old thread with some good descriptions of sets.

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