Playbill: After each winning a Tony Award for their work on the currently running Maybe Happy Ending, the pair’s latest project, The Lost Boys, has descended upon Broadway at the Palace Theatre to mysterious fanfare. Based on Joel Schumacher's 1987 cult classic of the same name, the musical is honing in on the emotional vulnerability that underpins the disarmingly stylized vampire film.
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This article made me think about how shows are marketed. The headline for the article says “Three-Story-Set, a 65-foot fly rig,” but the article is mostly about the dramaturgical content of the show. The headline with the big numbers about the technical details of the show are interesting and got me to click on the article. There are a lot of people who want to see a spectacle, and the easiest way to convince people that the show that they are watching is a spectacle is to show all of the technology that goes into it. The plot of the show and the story of the designers is only mentioned after people get interested by the technology. I think that as designers are considering the design of their show, it is important to both consider the actual design needs of the show to tell the dramaturgy, but also think about what moments are going to stick out for people to talk about and get new people into the audience.
Reading the title of this article made me come to the assumption that this article was going to boast about the high end technology that was used to create the jaw dropping moments in LostBoys. But reading some of the directors takes on what this play is truly about is much more interesting and powerful. He never wanted an “artist to overshadow the piece of art being made” which allowed them to specify and pick apart what would truly lend to a unified production. Although that is still a large amount of large moving pieces as it is hard to do a production that lends itself to a full fly rig. Then once you connect the extensive set with lighting a full world is born and the actors can properly tell the story. The design team were successful in their quest to make a unified production as the show photos display lighting revealing the layers of the three story scaffolding set.
I can tell from reading this article that this play was really well thought out and it seems to be a cohesive design and story so kudos to the design team for the play i can tell a lot of time was spent and that a lot of discussions were had about the world of the play which is something that a lot of plays struggle to do( at times its obvious to see for a play that the design team were aiming for different things which can have the consequence of making a production seem way less thought out). It also seems that they understand the challenges of adapting an ip into a stage adaption, its really hard and i feel like some directors dont recognize that when they take on projects like this, people often dive in head first without thinking about the important elements of that ip on how they'll translate on stage but i can tell a lot of thought went into how they would move stuff over
This was a very interesting article to read that covered both the story and reasoning behind their new work The Lost Boys and the physical demands that have been set out by the design. Requiring a 65 foot fly rig and several story set that expands straight upwards is a real challenge. I am immediately interested in the structure that is being used to create this huge set and how they are going about the installation of such a beast. I would love to hear from the technical director or head rigger on the show to hear more about their plan to make the vision happen. The article talks a lot about the design of the lighting for the show and how they are working together to create their vision for the vampire/brotherhood show. I think this is a super cool concept and honestly there is a lot about the story that I don’t think I full understand. However, I would love to go see this show for the story and the design of it all. They are being incredibly ambitious but I am confident that the designers and technicians will be able to pull it off.
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