#broadway set design

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Edward Gorey (British) • Illustration for stage design for the adaptation of Bram Stocker's Frankenstein on Broadway • 1977

[essegigi]

The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures - Tucson, Arizona

The whole museum is very cool, but their current exhibit on David Korins Broadway sets is a definite highlight! We were in town to see the Beetlejuice musical tour, so of course I was a little biased with my photo taking... 😅 but his other shows are also featured, including Hamilton!

[roth70]

Virtually recreating Boris Aronson's Original 1970 Company set!

[asthedeathoflight]

You know what I find really fascinating? At no point does anyone consider that maybe their vests make them too much of a target while the other groups are hunting them. The matching brown outfits put a target on their back (The Hurricanes even note that their vests are ugly) but even after that no one suggests to take it off. I get not wanting to give them up when the Orphans and Mercy demand for it (pride and whatever) but the rest of the time they could have worn them inside out or something. Another thing that never really gets brought is, they get to Coney and then what? With Cyrus dead, I don’t think the other gangs would necessarily respect the turf lines of the Warriors. The group has a single minded focus of getting home, which when you’re panicking, is what you’re going to do. But no one in the crew seems to be thinking beyond that. PS. My personal headcanon is that after the events in the album they switch to the black and red vests in the promo shots.

I have been hoarding this ask to myself because it is much to think about. But it's time for us all to think about it. Together.

I think the thing about the vests is really telling for who these characters are and the world that they live in. Because yes, they would be much safer if they took them off. But that isn't really the point for them. It doesn't matter if they can survive as women out on their own at night. They need to survive as Warriors. That matters. What they would lose if they gave that up is worth the price - to them - of keeping the vests on. That's why the last thing we hear Ajax say is "I'm a Warrior."

I think the bit about Coney Island is really interesting and functions on a few levels. Like first of all, as the Hurricanes point out, the Warriors "have no friends." They can't shelter in another gang's territory. Yes the other crews can come invade but they're at risk staying in any hostile gang's territory so it's better to have the home field advantage. In my personal headcanon I also think there are probably more Warriors back at Coney Island so they're also trying to get reinforcements? Although I know canon doesn't super support this bc why not just call them but. I just want there to be more Warriors in my heart okay. Snow and Vermin and Ash are still there you guys they just stayed home </3.

But I also think the "then what?" of it all is something that the album changes from the movie pretty considerably. Like the ending theme of the movie kind of is "so then what?" They made it back and nobody's trying to kill them anymore but they're still locked into the cycle of violence and have no hope and no future. Kind of a hollow victory for them. But more than even the gender thing the album changes this by saving Cleon. The point of going back to Coney Island is believing that there will be something waiting for them. Not to make everything about Ajax but this kind of seems like part of her whole deal in Park at Night. She's lost faith that there's anything waiting for her back home, so she can no longer think any farther ahead than what's right in front of her. But Fox sacrifices herself because she does believe there is something waiting for the others on the other side of the train, and she's right! Even if they couldn't have known how, the Warrior's hope is rewarded. There is a future for them. The album rejects the movie's take that Cyrus's death is the death of peace. It argues that what was important was not Cyrus as a person being present, but the act of all the gangs coming together in the name of peace. Once that happened, peace became inevitable. Even if it's not here yet, it's coming.

[thephantomofanastasia]

Additional photos from the production of Anastasia the Musical at the University of Mainz in Germany.

Photo credit: vidhyavictoria on IG

[eridonna]

𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐞! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥

Set Designs by Derek McLane.

Costumes by Catherine Zuber.

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

My gifs from video " Tony Nominee Best Costume Design - Tom Scutt/ Cabaret at Kit Kat Club"

"Cabaret has some of the most breathtaking costumes on Broadway right now, courtesy of the phenomenal designer Tom Scutt"

Entertainment Weekly

[the-cricket-chirps]

Edward Gorey and his Tony Award winning set for Dracula, 1978.

Edward Gorey, Dracula & Lucy

Edward Gorey, Dracula, Photo mechanical print,

[thesquirrelqueer]

@finallyheereandqueer is referring to this picture

which is from one of Beowulf Boritt’s 3D models for the show, there’s a bunch more too!

and even some 2D models

I don’t remember where I found them at all they’re just in the archive

[collinsportmaine]

Edward Gorey on the set of the 1977 production of Dracula, which he designed.

[sleepboysummer]

being a costume designer and set concept artist who is also a maximalist irl is fun and games until literally nothing is over the top enough.

[leisplayhouse]

set designs are very important art

[the-herdier]

Just a warning for anyone who wants to see The Outsiders musical: If you cannot handle blackouts and harsh, blinding white light flashes, you might want to pass this one by.

[roth70]

Stephen Sondheim's Company in its Pre-Broadway tryout period in Boston, 1970:

Still lots more rare OBC Company stuff to come!!!

[my-adventures-behind-the-scenes]

So I recently got the chance to work on the design team for a show going on in an actual fuck-mothering broadway theater and it was. Insane. A lot of stairs and intimidating yet very nice people. Spent basically a few hours following my boss around while trying and failing to not nerd out at literally everything.

[szollibisz]

Pretty sure the thing I'm gonna miss the most when i move abroad is hungarian theatre (especially my local theatre)