What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??- Page 4

[ILoveMyDictionary]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#75

Posted: 4/11/06 at 4:50pm

Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast, although B&B's scenery is a bit cartoonish, but then again it's Disney.

[WickedOne2]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#76

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:33pm

Into the Woods Revival
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Wicked
Phantom of the Opera

"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe

[WickedOne2]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#77

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:33pm

Into the Woods Revival
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Wicked
Phantom of the Opera

"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe

[wherethehorizonlies]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#78

Posted: 4/11/06 at 7:49pm

Piazza - so glorious
Sweeney Todd - simple but really really effective
Festen - perfectly simple, shame it didn't transfer well

We cannot know what will occur/Just make our journey worth the taking/And pray we're wiser then we were/In the beginning" ~Children of Eden "Risk is everything" ~The Light in the Piazza "I can just see us now in our bathing dresses...you in a nice navy and me? Stripes perhaps." ~Sweeney Todd Tovah Won Me Ovah '06

[Fabrizio2]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#79

Posted: 4/11/06 at 7:56pm

Am I the only one who thought that The Lord of the Rings set was amazing????

[SweeneyPhanatic]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#80

Posted: 5/22/06 at 12:54am

To add to my earlier choices ("POTO", "Evita", "Urinetown") I'd like to mention (and I know I'll get some crap for this) "Carrie".

Not ALL of it, but parts were kinda neat. Despite the disco ball, I liked the mirrored walls at the prom. The big staircase descending after the destruction was cool, too. I think with a new director (and some rewrites) that "Carrie" could be a good show. Not great like "Phantom" or "Wicked," but good like "Grease" or "The Woman in White."

-- SDG

[dirty rotten guy]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#81

Posted: 5/22/06 at 10:22am

I personally love Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, and the revival of Sweet Charity.

"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"

[BwayBaby18]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#82

Posted: 5/22/06 at 10:35am

There was only one good part to the Sweet Charity Set...

[tophertilson]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#83

Posted: 5/22/06 at 10:43am

The original production of PACIFIC OVERTURES ('76). Boris Aronson was a GOD!!!!!

TT

"Me flunk English? That's unpossible!" - Ralph Wiggum

[dirty rotten guy]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#84

Posted: 5/22/06 at 10:49am

BwayBaby, I disagree. I loved the rooftop and the dressing room mirrors, as well as all of those neon signs. I also thought the ferris wheel was pretty damn cool. But, of couse, the lightboard was the coolest part.

"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"

[Mister Matt]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#85

Posted: 5/22/06 at 11:10am

An Inspector Calls
Les Miserables
Proposals
Jane Eyre

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Thesbijean]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#86

Posted: 5/22/06 at 11:11am

Dreamgirls and City of Angels

[gypsy71]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#87

Posted: 5/22/06 at 10:54pm

Throughly Modern Millie

Great American Trailer Park Musical

Its not where you start its where you finish..

[RentBoy86]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#88

Posted: 5/23/06 at 12:04am

Ugh. Sets are my favorite parts of shows. I wish I could see what they look like. Do any of the more famous Broadway set designers have online portfolios?

[allofmylife]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#89

Posted: 5/23/06 at 1:18am

Someone mentioned BAKER STREET, which I found amazing. Personally, I likes a little show called THE 1940'S RADIO HOUR, COMPANY and, of all shows ANNIE, which had simple - very simply - and yet technologically complex for the time sets. As a little boy, I saw GYPSY and CAMELOT in their original productions and can still close my eyes and see the sets in my mind.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699

[scooter38432]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#90

Posted: 5/23/06 at 7:56am

THE KING & I (Donna Murphy revival)
This entire production was stunning from beginning to end.

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

SHOWBOAT (Harold Prince revival)

CAROUSEL (Lincoln Center revival)

I AM MY OWN WIFE

DINNER AT EIGHT (Revival from a few years ago)

AIDA (The sets were good, lighting was even better.)

I would say SUNSET BLVD, but the entire show was about the set -- because the rest of the show was 100% crap.

A CHORUS LINE (just kidding)

SWEENEY TODD (Original)

Itty Bitty Geisha? Toyland? Gypsy Pasadoble? Just a few popular favorites...

Updated On: 5/23/06 at 07:56 AM

[elvisitis1302]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#91

Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:43pm

-Dance of the Vampires (it was amazing, especially the Inn and Bridge at the end of Act I)
-Dracula
-Sweeney Todd (original)
-Pacific Overtures (Original)
-Sunday in the Park With George
-The Light in the Piazza

[WonderBoy]

re: What show do you think has OR had the best scenery??#92

Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:16pm

Neil Simon's PROPOSALS had an amazing, amazing, amazing set!

"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns