Sets you enjoy?- Page 3

[chasgoose]

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

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.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:41pm

Hmmm...
The three that really stand out in my mind are Aida (gorgeous), Rent (wow, just so intricate!), and Avenue Q (wonderful use of a unit set, I guess like Rent). I'm sure there are more that I like, but those are my three at the moment.

~Steven

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 5:21pm

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

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 5:38pm

I always said I walked out of the original La Cage production humming the sets.

Tally's Folley (John Lee Beatty) was the single most romantic setting ever for a play and Edward Gorey's Dracula was astonishing.

There was a great little play starring Pat Carroll, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein that had the most interesting backdrop.

And, well, anything by Boris Aronson.

[chasgoose]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:20pm

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

[La Vie Boheme]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 6:23pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels does have really nice sets.

I liked the Sweet Charity sets and how they matched the costumes.

The Producers (you can never forget the fountain!)

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 7:15pm

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

An old thread with some good descriptions of sets.

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 7:19pm

I loved the RENT set. It just had such a great and appropriate look to it. And I have to also go with Wicked set.