What tips did Sam Mendes give that you might want to explore if you were directing a scene or an entire play? How does involving the actors in the process help to make the play better?
Can you list three of the different movement exercises that the movement coach helped the actor with for the character of Nora? Which of these exercises or techniques did you think would help you the most in developing a character for the stage?
Armageddon meets SpongeBob meets Our Town. That is quite a concept for a show.
QUESTIONS: What TV show would you like to see brought to life on Broadway? Why?
QUESTIONS: Which answer was the most interesting? What show would you most like to see on Broadway and be able to ask any performer anything? Who would you ask a question to and what would you ask?
QUESTIONS: What would be the hardest part about bringing a cartoon character to life on stage? How would you like wearing that costume and dancing with 4 legs?
QUESTIONS: What was the craziest part of these costumes? How do they help to tell the story of SpongeBob? What does the color palate help to set this story as a cartoon story?
QUESTIONS: What would be fun about designing an underwater world for a cartoon musical set? What would be a challenge? And what does the Rube Goldberg machine bring to the show? AND HOW COOL WAS THAT ONSTAGE?
QUESTIONS: What surprised you the most about the design work on this musical? What kind of design work is the most interesting to you? Why?
QUESTIONS: What would be fun about being a FOLEY artist? And what would be the most difficult part?
QUESTIONS: What would be the hardest part about being 16 years old and on BROADWAY?
QUESTIONS: What other teen movies would make a great Broadway musical?
QUESTIONS: So, if you had your DREAM ROLE on Broadway, what character would that be? What elements of yourself would you put in your Broadway dressing room? What elements of your character would you put in the room?
What was your favorite secret? Have you ever been in a show and what was a secret from backstage at your show?
QUESTIONS: Would want to be the Lighting Designer for a show? Why or why not?
And sometimes you need a song to dance along to at home. My favorite is the one singing into her hairbrush. Cause that is exactly what I do… except not quite as well as she does.
QUESTIONS: What is your favorite Broadway get up and dance song? All of these virtual performances show us that artists love to create, however they can. How have you been creating while at home?
It is a new month and sometimes you just need to listen to a great Broadway song. To remind yourself to look around at all the wonderful things that may not be so evident at first… you are not alone.
QUESTIONS: What is your favorite Broadway song to listen to when you need to cheer yourself up?
Not quite HardCore Minimalism here folks… more like HARDCORE OVERLY EXCESSIVELY AWESOME. Wowza, now these are some Broadway worthy sets. The details, the hat tips to Tim Burton, the easter eggs to his other movies, this is over the top amazing set design. I love the tiny stories that are told in the details that no one except the actors and those working up close with the set will ever see, but it helps tell the bigger story and is so whimsical and fun! This wasn’t a show that I wanted to see UNTIL I saw this video, now I am sad that I missed seeing this amazing set in person!
QUESTIONS: What was the most interesting part of the design for this set? What tiny detail amazed you? Would you want to see this show just to see the set design?
These are some evocative designs. I like the idea of a set representing not a PLACE but the BIG IDEA of the play. All of the elements each telling a part of the story through metaphorical images and feelings evoked from the set design itself. So challenging, but so much more interesting than a traditional realistic set.
QUESTIONS: How could a set represent not a place but an idea? What did you find interesting about his designs? How can you design a place based on the FEELINGS that a place creates instead of the VISUAL IMAGES?
The use of everyday materials in surprising ways is interesting (and cheaper than building full sets. So that is even more exciting of a possibility for our Leon sets.)
QUESTIONS: How did you like the idea of creating sets that change with how the actors use and move them? What is the craziest thing you might design a set with? What play would work with that HARDCORE MINIMALIST set?
Special effects are the SPECTACULAR element that you always remember from productions. Listening to Gregory Meeh talk about how he started young and just liked to invent things for the stage. And as all things theatre, it is all about telling the story in the most unique ways…
QUESTIONS: What has been the most spectacular element of a play that you have seen? How important are special effects when you see a play or musical?
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