10 musical set pieces that went WAY TOO HARD

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@WaitintheWings Год назад

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@hazelleblanc8969 Год назад

In Titanic The Musical they had a 3 tier stage set like a cutaway of the ship. Really gave you a feeling of the separation of the classes. During the second act that entire stage tilted, with furniture falling over, gradually tilting more and more as the ship sank. Very impressive staging.

@connergraham1522 Год назад

The Serenbe playhouse, the one that did the Mrs. Saigon helicopter with a real helicopter, also did a production of Titanic: The Musical were they built a set they could actually sink.

@oliviaalvord4875 Год назад

And when you say "sank" you really mean sank. The stage was filled with water

@connergraham1522 Год назад

@Olivia Alvord I really wished I could have seen it. I live in Mississippi, and the playhouse was in Georgia. It really would have been worth the 4 and a half hour drive to have seen it.

@losingmymind611 Год назад

Til there's a Titanic musical.

@MarcusMartn Год назад

Oh wow 😮

@jazzycat8917 Год назад

So in conclusion: Trevor Nunn and John Napier never stopped doing The Most, Alex Timbers is their spiritual successor, and someone should have physically restrained Terry Hands and told him No.

@pikaace Год назад

I got to see King Kong and we got third-row seats and honestly, seeing that thing so close was INSANE. There's a scene where Kong goes to the edge of the stage and looks into the audience to look for Ann, and just his sheer PRESENCE had me shaking in my seat. That puppet alone was worth the full price of admission and then some.

@MsAbixxx Год назад

I wish I got to see that. It looks amazing!

@jakejancook Год назад

You're honestly so right. In that moment you can hear a pin drop as everyone is so shocked that king Kong is infront of your face with no music, no other actors, just the crazy loud seat vibrating roars

@notmarkus Год назад

I was amazed too. I went in cold thinking, they'll be some guys in monkey suits dancing, and that might be fun. I wasn't ready for the huge stage spectacle, the transformation of the Kong climbing the Empire State Building, the stage becoming a ship mast, etc. The use of rear projection and forced perspective made it look like Kong was climbing the Empire State Building. It was technical sorcery!

@matthewlucas4990 Год назад

Presence! ONE slip and that thing could literally KILL half of the first couple rows. Remarkable for people that got so close! It's not even a fraction of the size, but my most recent Audrey 2 puppet would move towards the edge of the stage in the finale... so many people were scared it would come right off the stage onto them that they either put their arms or or even moved out of the way! 😂

@rickwilson4077 Год назад

We love the staircase in Carrie. So ridiculously campy and unneeded.

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

Isn't the motto of musical theather world is:-"go big, or home"?

@juliasings6131 Год назад

Ugh. I hate it, but I also love it. It's a great set piece, but like... There? Really? Ok. We're doing this ig

@grat.2242 Год назад

"If you're gonna fail, fail big." - Alex Brightman

@theyluvtwoset.13 Год назад

I wish I could do the play Carrie but I did mean girls.....sigh jk i love mean girls

@unclepatrick2 4 месяца назад

was the Staircase in the off Broadway production ?

@edreid7872 Год назад

I used to skate the streets of Greenwich Village around the time Starlight Express was being developed..a strange man stopped me, and asked if I wanted to audition.. I thought it was a joke..I missed being a Broadway baby...😂

@WaitintheWings Год назад

Oh my god hahahaha

@edreid7872 Год назад

@@WaitintheWings IKR..I remember exactly where I was stopped, East 4th Street and Avenue A..I almost auditioned, while considering not completing my Master’s degree, I think I made the right decision..🤭

@Arlofan Год назад

"Alex Timbers receives praise for 18 minutes" Love it!

@raffaelm6558 Год назад

It's so incredible to me to think how infamous Starlight Express is worldwide while it's a staple in Germany. We have a theater that was built just for it and it's been on there since 1988, still going strong to this day and holds the record for the longest running musical in the same theater. I've seen it several times since I was a child and basically everyone in Germany has at least heard of Starlight Express.

@littlesongbird1 Год назад

I am so jealous you got to see it!

@smalls9852 Год назад

Wow! That is incredible!

@AdamBreakey75 Год назад

One of my friends was actually a performer in the German production of Starlight - he was one of the original members of that show.

@aradraugfea6755 Год назад

Germans are just built different, I guess.

@raffaelm6558 Год назад

@@AdamBreakey75 That is so cool! I was 5 when it started here originally. I think I've seen it for the first time at age 8 or 9, so I probably missed his time on on the show.

@2010Wilde Год назад

Funny story about the Aladdin carpet. I saw the show when it came to Melbourne in 2017. During the performance I went to, they had to stop the show for about 10-15 minutes because they couldn't get the carpet back down. After "Whole New World", the stage curtains suddenly closed and an announcement came over the speakers telling us they were experiencing some difficulties and we should remain in our seats. During that time I think stage mangers were rushing in with ladders to get Jasmine and Aladdin down. When the curtains re-opened, it looked like the actors had JUST gotten back down because they were still giggling when they started speaking.

@smalls9852 Год назад

Lol that is priceless

@scottschramm5549 Месяц назад

SAME MAN I THINK WE MADE TO THE SAME ONE

@musicluvr0711 Год назад

Alternate title... Alex Timbers didn't have to go so hard but glad he did!! 🤣

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

Come on, the list gotta be more than just him! Right?

@benburke3015 Год назад

Ngl, there was a breif moment where I thought the list was just going to be Alex Timbers sets. Lol.

@helenshackelford4596 Год назад

I saw King Kong live a few years ago, and was stunned by the puppet. It stole the show! Despite the fact that you could see the puppeteers moving it around the stage, the illusion remained shockingly intact. The facial expressions and little movements made it so lifelike.

@colinmcallister3038 Год назад

I had no idea that Jane Krakowski almost injured herself in Starlight Express. Props to Bob Torti for his sacrifice.

@Popcultureguy3000 2 месяца назад

Am I Mandela Affecting this, or was their a joke on 30 Rock about Jenna nearly dying on Starlight Express as a very on the nose in-joke to this accident?

@ryanschwartz4959 Год назад

There probably needs to be an updated video down the line that includes things like the DeLorean from Back to the Future: The Musical. Not only is it able to appear to drive around on stage, but during the final scene, it hovers in midair over the stage and travels over the first few rows of seats, even flipping upside-down with Marty and Doc still inside.

@CinnamonQuills Год назад

The Groundhog Day musical is like this embodied. I liked the music and the performances were awesome, but what really blew me away were the set and special effects! The car chase, the turning town/room central piece, the sleight-of-hand slipping in and out of set pieces in "Hope". I was glad to see Sunset Boulevard get mentioned though, I remember being blown away by the moving set in particular when I saw it WAY back in the day.

@kimojio Год назад

yes!! this musical is so underappreciated! truly fantastic staging and effects

@prsanfrancisco1688 Год назад

And the magnificent opening, where they suspended somebody from above your head and you looked up as if you were seeing somebody floating in a swimming pool, dead- as if you were at the bottom of the pool looking up… It was breathtaking

@Yssand Год назад

Round of applause for the star* of this video: The Hydraulic lift! *Honorary mention to John Napier, of course.

@WaitintheWings Год назад

Take a shot every time I say "hydraulics" in this video

@adamgreenspan4988 Год назад

Special thanks to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.

@Def.Not.Scarlett. Год назад

@@WaitintheWings me: *does this* also me:is underage

@JBabyLeather Год назад

Now I will always refer to Trevor Nunn as Spectacle Daddy

@sambarrett6445 Год назад

Honorable mention is the entire stage opening up in hadestown which catches my breath every time I see it!

@deweydjb Год назад

I absolutely adored King Kong and saw it several times. It was a shame it never got the following it deserved, that puppet was one of the most amazing things I ever saw. I am still bummed it never got a cast recording! As for amazing sets i truly enjoyed, I loved the She Loves Me set that opened from outside the shop to inside, it was gorgeous.

@TheManTheMythTheE Год назад

So surprised that the Phantom of the Opera Chandelier was not featured in this list! It was so Iconic!

@sierrajohnson717 Год назад

I wish Broadway set pieces were preserved the way some movie memorabilia is. I’d love to see these in a museum

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

We'd need a Moon sized storage room for them then.🤣

@Arlofan Год назад

@@erikbihari3625 Alright, NASA, get us back to the moon so we can start hollowing it out.

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

@@Arlofan. I was kidding.

@RyoSaeba626 Год назад

I hope that once Phantom leaves this April, the Smithsonian would preserve all the costumes, the elephant from Hannibal, the chandelier, and the boat. Unlikely but one could dream.

@Arlofan Год назад

@@erikbihari3625 I'm not I WANNA SEE THIS MUSEUM 😂

@daniellel230 Год назад

The glass ass is an honorable mention

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

Say, what now?

@daniellel230 Год назад

@@erikbihari3625 the American production of Bad Cinderella- Brendon talks about it in his video with Mickey Jo lol

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

@@daniellel230. Ok.

@Mockingdragon Год назад

I love so much that half this list is by the same team of Trevor Nunn and Jack Napier 🤣

@SweetieCartoons Год назад

Alt. title: "Hey, theatre in the 80s was fuckin' bananas!"

@alyzu4755 23 дня назад

😂😂😂 Yes, it really was!

@iljasmitsis Год назад

I love the car in Back to the future. It just drifts onto the stage out of the black and it flies over the audience and goes upside doen! (Including the iconic flipping of the wheels)

@firstflowerinspace Год назад

I know not every stage can get a mention but I’m going to drop the Great Comet lighting design stats: - 998 light bulbs - 37 chandeliers - 1,950 light cues

@saturniidace Год назад

great comet stage design my beloved. chavkin is a genius

@pseudonymous9153 9 месяцев назад

525,600 light cues 525,000 chandeliers

@allisonbergh4429 Год назад

I will go to my grave defending the original Starlight Express. You have to remember that things were somewhat different back then. Entertainment mostly wasn’t the full-throttle, in your face, high production value, multimedia wonderland we now take for granted. We’ve gotten a lot better at theatre since then - now you can have good storytelling AND thrilling spectacle - but in the 80s we were still figuring that out. And Starlight Express was a spectacular spectacle. I mean it was JAW-DROPPING. It’s easy to forgive a weak story when the songs are the ALW processed-cheese-food of music, and gorgeously costumed train people are racing past and over you at seemingly real train speeds. By contrast, I would have walked out of the “new and improved” version of the show, if the tickets hadn’t been a birthday gift from my parents. But I’m not ashamed to say the original was dazzling 😝

@AnneBridgeman Год назад

I saw it when I was in high school and it came to town, it was amazing. Knowing what I know now about all the problems and injuries, I can't believe it toured.

@jordanjay5901 Год назад

I saw an amateur production where the kid playing Rusty didn’t even learn to roller skate - he ran off and got an aluminium scooter for the races! The Apollo Victoria production was amazing for the set design and the speed the skaters went round. The touring version with the 3D race video is just not the same thing at all and highlights the deficiencies of the show.

@DerrickMims Год назад

I saw it in Vegas, I’m not entirely certain when - - late 80s or very early 90s, I’m guessing? It was very cool visually, and I don’t remember anything about the songs or the story. Absolutely, it was all about the spectacle and nothing else.

@thomasbradley4505 Год назад

I saw the original production of Sunset Boulevard in LA pre-broadway. Around the time it opened, LA had a major earthquake. There was a worry that an aftershock could cause the set to collapse onto the stage, and if it was during a performance, specifically the New Years Eve scene, they could lose most of the cast 😳

@hothotheat3000 Год назад

Saw Kong with a rush ticket and ended up right up front. The puppet was incredible.

@bm4114 Год назад

That Kong puppet deserved a better written and composed show. It was so lovable and scary. Like the actual character that beautiful creature was exploited in terrible show. For a hot minute Jason Robert brown was going to rewrite it for Broadway. If only…

@chocolatesouljah Год назад

And the Tony Award goes to: HYDRAULICS!

@THATGuy5654 Год назад

This is blowing my mind. I was under the impression that all of these big set elements were being created by a single person whose parents were murdered by theater kids, and swore to dedicate the rest of his life to creating devices that would mash and mangle them.

@alyzu4755 23 дня назад

😂😂😂

@MrMusical66 Год назад

The set design for "Time The Musical" was absolutely incredible and also by the genius John Napier.

@tedioustotoro4885 Год назад

I’m curious how the Rebecca staircase will be done in London later this year considering how small the Charing Cross Theatre is.

@chemina8541 Год назад

I saw Rebecca in Vienna with the original setting and can tell you that the Raimund Theater isn't huge either. The staircase only looks that huge because of a little bit of optical illusion magic.

@toric6005 Год назад

Have you seen the Aladdin Carpet from the Hyperion? It flew over the crowd and one time it flipped and the actors were hanging on for dear life and screaming

@WaitintheWings Год назад

That one legit terrifies me haha

@DancingInDreamWorld Год назад

I had to pause the video and laugh for a few moments at "spectacle daddy" - that killed me XD

@Phelie315 Год назад

Starlight Express is still going strong in Germany 35 years later, my fellow countrymen and women just love that spectacle, apparently :D

@02samanderson Год назад

What about the most expensive stage prop in theatre history? Chitty chitty bang bang! A 5 seater car that flew over the audience and rotated 360 degrees, sprouting wings and floatation....

@anthonyflynn6228 Год назад

One of my favorites that was London only: the giant chess board from CHESS. Still a beautiful design.

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

This reminds me of the musical Hell episode on Pokémon live. But more importantly, makes you wonder:-"what if Sonic The Hedgehog had a Broadway musical back in his hay days"huh?

@Nikki-tx6kh Год назад

I am more of a costume nerd, being into Historical Fashion. But a good prop or set piece can be an amazing helper to tell the story.

@masterowen45 Год назад

This should become a series… plenty more to mention. 2000 Rocky Horror Picture show with its revolving stall seating that turn into the stage. Lord of the Rings on Stage with its segmented lifts and revolves. Billy Elliot’s bedroom and kitchen lift that spin out of the stage.

@kermitTHEdinosaur93 Год назад

What about: .The Spongebob Squarepants Musical- Bikini Bottom sets .Frozen the Musical- Elsa's Castle .Beauty and the Beast Musical- The Be Our Guest Set .Wicked- The Giant Dragon Animantronic .Audrey II Puppet- Little Shop of Horrors

@Gellarfan666 Год назад

I was breathlessly waiting for the Rebecca staircase!

@sentimentalrasa5887 Год назад

The production design of the musical Ragtime, in my opinion, should be included on this list. It was underrated, but praised for its historical accuracy.

@floraposteschild4184 Год назад

Not strictly from a musical, but shout out to the standing stones from Spinal Tap, "Stonehenge" Oh, how they danced.

@lunasuji Год назад

Kopit's Phantom (at least the South Korean version) has both the Lloyd Webber chandelier and a burnt staircase like Rebecca. You get the beeeeest of both wooooorlds

@Joel-StevenVoicedude Год назад

I've actually witnessed about half of these! In the original JC Superstar on Broadway the Crucifixion was done against a giant golden triangle instead of a cross. I've done the show thrice and the director of the first one in 1976 said she wished I had shown her the picture of that earlier...

@DragonPrincessAoife Год назад

Its funny, I entered my theatre degree as the Rebecca thing was happening, so one professor, who wanted us to keep up with the theatrical news, made us bring in points to discuss about that each week. So I remember it well.

@arnaugarcesbaldo4350 Год назад

I'm from Catalonia, Spain, and here the company Dagoll Dagom keeps making representations of "Mar i Cel" (Sea and Sky), the musical adaptation of the theater play with the same title. Soaring through the stage there's a giant pirate ship and it enters the stage from the side, it rotates, it does wonders... And I always will remember. Sorry, but I needed to say it out loud, I know it's way off Broadway, but the musical pays it off 🥺.

@erisedstraeh1 Год назад

I remember seeing my Mom reading Rebecca, when I was a kid, and your video about it prompted me to give it a read. So glad I did! Thank you for that!

@anthonyflynn6228 Год назад

The whole set of Metropolis The Musical. Also designed by the Carrie designer.

@Coseepo Год назад

Man I wish this video was AFTER the bttf broadway transfer. Easily my favourite set piece I've ever seen, can't wait to see what the US does with it

@witheandstone7267 Год назад

The Rebecca staircase now lives at the Andy Williams Theater in Branson, Missouri.

@TomIdelson Год назад

You are the king of of storytelling and editing!! Love love love you videos xo

@AidanDownes_KH Год назад

I saw King Kong when it first opened in Melbourne in 2013 and it was amazing!

@mikeyfrederick1232 Год назад

Just gotta say I have been really enjoying your content sir.. super interesting..learning about what goes on behind the scene is just fascinating..you deserve major credit for all the work you put into the channel.. keep doing what you do..

@himonightbreeze Год назад

This channel makes me miss doing theatre, but also gives me flashbacks to when I was timekeeper at a high school competition in the "duet musicals" room, and had to listen to "Light My Candle" three times in a row at varying qualities.

@DannyMoser 11 месяцев назад

Digging your videos! Nice to see/hear fresh takes on the industry that are up-to-date and use current references! BFA in theater production and design and MA in musical theater performance here, so appreciate the scope. Keep 'em coming!

@sophie7780 Год назад

my mom saw starlight express on the west end in the late 80s & still raves about the roller track lol

@bagelraven 7 месяцев назад

I’d like to shout out my high school’s stagecraft class, which, after I graduated and the theater teacher left, got its own teacher, which means much more time and dedication given to the sets. Formerly, the director of the play also ran stagecraft and tech. Their performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream had one of if not the most elaborate set I’d ever seen at that school, a multi-level structure with platforms that folded out, little spaces for fairies to hide and peek out from, a hidden way to climb between the levels, and many ways to move underneath and through the structure. It’s perhaps not very impressive compared to these, but for a small private school? Incredible!

@DDTC73 Год назад

Way too excited that you included THE staircase...that came from and went where exactly? The most exspensive, pointless prop ever created for a musical. I thought the white staircase was also a nod to Terry Hands' 'Greece' reference, with the white togas etc. Ralph Koltai was a fascinating man. Translator at the Nuremberg Trials to set designer of Carrie (and Metropolis!).. What a life he led! That London Starlight set was just fantastic. The proximity to actors, speed, lighting, that bridge, which wasn't a problem in London thankfully. Really wish they would bring it back in an arena tour!

@geoffrygo Год назад

Love this especially paired with the New Yorker article that pointed out the general lack of set design in new Broadway shows. Glad people are talking about this.

@Mikii21309 Год назад

One of my personal favorite set pieces in musicals is Maraczek's Parfumerie in the 2016 She Loves Me revival. It might not be as grand and spectacular as the ones mentioned in the video but the awe and wonder that I felt when I saw it for the first time has stuck with me ever since ❤ Wish I could've seen it live, though 🥺

@luca7165 Год назад

It’s not as flashy, but I would like to shout out the foam cube from the Falsettos revival, it’s so versatile :)

@sambarrett6445 Год назад

love this answer, the falsettos set is superrrrr cute

@discorapumpkin8157 5 месяцев назад

I hate how binge-able your content is! I hopped in for a bit of research...that was 10 videos ago! You and your little hooks at the end of the video to get me to watch another one. YOU did this to me! YouuUOUOUUUU!

@discorapumpkin8157 5 месяцев назад

....now I have to go watch Rebecca...

@melonyrobinson9944 Год назад

Perfect timing for this video! My school musical just did load in and my fingers are sore from carrying our set

@JeddtheJedi Год назад

I love spectacle theatre; it's what got me interested in theatre. I'm curious to see how the production of Rebecca going into the Charing Cross Theatre in London handles the staircase and the rest of the set because the Charing Cross Theatre cannot accommodate anything like that.

@quixentric Год назад

If you wanna see something real fun, look into the new run of Starmania, a French rock opera (musical-adjacent!) which had a giant rotating set piece that also split apart & was like 20-feet tall. Plus it has 500+ lights! Currently running in France and I had a chance to see it, was so worth it.

@JonoBono6 Год назад

Another great setpiece is the car in back to the future. Thing literally fly’s above the audience then turns upside down WITH THE ACTORS INSIDE IT

@literallyanythingelseother Год назад

I don't know if it counts as a set piece, but the light effect in the harry Potter play was wild. The water rippling effect from the lighting felt so real. By far the wildest special effect I've ever seen. God i hated that play so much, but goddamn was that cool

@towelclipz Год назад

I love extravagant stuff like this, learning about the pratical effects needed to pull off that kinda stuff absolutely fascinates me!

@VampireLestatTheBratPrince Год назад

When my friend saw Aladdin the magic carpet didn’t work. They never got to see the end of the show but the cast mangers did come out for a meet and greet.

@simonlucawellner8591 Год назад

What a great video! I‘m thrilled to see that a German language musical has made its way to the list since there are numerous European musicals with stunning set pieces, even though I think that the burning steps where added some years later in „Rebecca‘s“ run in Stuttgart, Germany. I remember that it was truly stunning, when I saw the show there, but as far as as I know, the original Austrian version „only“ had burning handrails. Never had the chance to see that first version live unfortunately, but I remember there were some proshots on RU-vid.

@rokurokubi3273 Год назад

I worked on the King Kong puppet back at Creature Technology. Nice to see it still getting some love.

@karmic_punishment Год назад

my theatre teacher in highschool worked on king kong on broadway and hearing about it always makes me think of all the times in hs he'd come in annoyed about whatever had happened recently with the show (or some of the others he was working on) haha i never got the see the show but the puppet always stunned me from pictures alone

@Erikslair Год назад

Great list of musicals, many of which I saw in London: Cats, Starlight Express, Sunset Blvd, The Phantom Of The Opera, Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. A couple of these weren’t highlighted in this video and the helicopter didn’t work the night my brother and I saw Miss Saigon. Missing was Simon Bowman too!

@markfuller1306 Год назад

May not be the most popular or successful, but by far the most ambitious and complicated - Lord of The Rings. Now THAT was a set to behold!

@whovian809 Год назад

Yeah! Carrie representation!

@nebulacoffee Год назад

Another great video! Looking forward to you seeing/commenting on Back to the Future when it arrives over there. No spoilers but it has a great contender for this list! ⚡☢️

@rixx46 Год назад

Good lord! I can't believe how many of these shows my wife and I saw! STARLIGHT EXPRESS in London - you came out humming the scenery. But it was amazing. A few years before, we saw CATS in the same theatre - the New Apollo. MISS SAIGON in London - the helicopter was not that impressive - but at least the show was good. SUNSET BLVD - We saw the show in preview before it went to Broadway. The set got STUCK and they stopped the show for nearly an hour to sort it out! My agent at the time said he saw Billy Wilder on the street in Beverly Hills and stopped to ask him what he thought of the show. The old man shook his head - he had no interest. He said, "From a musical, you can make a movie - from a movie you don't make a musical."

@jordanjay5901 Год назад

Cats has NEVER been performed at the Apollo Victoria. It was either the New London (subsequently Gillian Lynne) Theatre and revivals played at the Dominion.

@Nargon46 Год назад

My mom got to see the King Kong Puppet when she got pulled in off the street to be in the audience for when they filmed the Macy's Parade clip. I wish I could have gotten to see the show! I love a giant puppet

@gordongraham7 2 месяца назад

I saw the Miss Saigon production he mentioned that had a real helicopter fly in. It was amazing! That same company did Titanic where the set was in a lake so people were actually falling into the water.

@CosmicRay111 Год назад

That was huge fun! HYDROLICS! The answer to literally everything!

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

Glad your back bud! With sideways going well, That, and musical hell reportedly closing shop soon, it's good to get my musical theather fix somewhere. Who else got here from Spiderman?

@abigailw7146 Год назад

missing sideways hours

@erikbihari3625 Год назад

@@abigailw7146. Ok?

@kazza6078 Год назад

Thank for always remembering theatre icon Diana the musical, many wouldn't but that's why you're high class

@nathanblevins9870 Год назад

That rocky set was amazing!

@PS-DLMA Год назад

The Banks House in Mary Poppins

@uploxy5341 Год назад

The fact that the Falsettos cube isn't in here is a CRIME

@kniferaffe Год назад

Seeing King Kong in person was an experience I'll never forget. Live theater is magical.

@ladysam3834 Год назад

another great top 10 video but I'm sorry but my Dutch pride says that the soldier of orange the musical also belongs in this list. I mean if converting an airplane hangar to theater isn't enough. then you have the seats of the audience rotating along with the activity on stage. and if anyone is wondering why would they convert an airplane hangar that is for the last scene to use a real plane from the era. this musical has also been sold out since its opening in 2010 and they also want to build a theater for the musical in London. Greetings from a Dutch fan

@chadleo4918 Год назад

I'd much prefer these sets to the bare minimum we've seen recently!

@nokocchi1983 Год назад

the musical Via Galactica had the entire stage covered in trampolines. The actors literally couldnt walk. The entire stage was a trampoline

@wig8055 Год назад

a super underrated set piece is the dragon from the west end production of shrek the musical. it flew out into the audience and everybody gasped when it did, i wish there was a video of it somewhere because i cant even begin to describe how amazing it was

@Lunar_Spell Год назад

You should cover the Lord of the Rings musical. I'm not sure if the behind the scenes drama was as extensive as Carrie or Spiderman, but (from what I've been told) the overall budget more than doubled when it was moved from Toronto to London, from (approximately) $21 million to (approximately) _$50 million,_ despite being scaled down and shortened by half an hour. And the 2015 tour never made it off the ground allegedly due to the fact that they simply couldn't find theaters big enough to facilitate its enormous rotating set. It closed only a year after the premiere, marked as one of the worst flops in West End history, despite being an absolute banger. Also, the music was written by a bollywood composer (A. R. Rahman) and a Finnish folk band (Värttinä). Absolute gold.

@JohnnyLondon-gk9gx 4 месяца назад

Starlight Express had one of the wildest sets, in my opinion. Absolutely wild, in terms of everything.

@ArrowOdenn Год назад

I'm seeing Rebecca in London in November. I don't know if the staircase will be there... but I hope so!

@CaptainSidx Год назад

I'd love to see one about Tanz der Vampire. Though not a popular American musical, the sets are incredible!

@ryanschwartz4959 Год назад

And apparently, the Sunset Blvd mansion would descend from the ceiling to mimic a “split screen” effect. Also, Mary Poppins on Broadway did something similar, where the Banks residence would rise from and lower into the stage floor.