This is the most impressive thing I have ever seen. I know as a set designer it is hard for the director and producers to see the show in your head. The video below is the entire show in a scale model complete with lighting and special effects. WOW!
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A couple of weeks ago I saw the Broadway National Tour of Cinderella. I was curious to see this show because sometime last year I purchased a limited edition print of the set design for this production. Only five prints were ever made and signed by the designer. I have one! I have it hanging on my living room wall. I have been looking at it wondering if I was ever going to see the production. I did and it was most magical. Enjoy looking at the artwork, set design and clip of the show! Oh and by the way I'm a big fan of this designer! Her name is Anna Louizos, enjoy browsing her website! I saw the new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera last September. It was an amazing production, scaled back but just as amazing. The scenery was just as memorable, but new. Enjoy watching the load in! I had the pleasure of designing a project for Ritz-Carlton Corporate that was held at The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas. Who better to help me on this than my friend Nate Davis! Another amazing looking set, thanks Nate!
Here we have the nominated number of Legally Blonde from this year's The Column Awards. I was excited becuase the two musicals I worked on this year was nominated for Best Musical, the other one was phantom. Enjoy the video! This past design project was all about charity! I donated my time to create the set for the 2015 The Column Awards. I was also honored to have been nominated for my set design for Phantom. Last year I was the recipient of the design award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical-Non Equity. All proceeds from this awards show go to an amazing charity called Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids. The Column Awards mission statement In our commitment to support live theatre in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, The Column Awards annually honors excellence in local theatre productions. Additionally, The Column Awards strives to raise funds for the fight against AIDS by primarily contributing to Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. Finally, The Column Awards is dedicated to developing a love of theatre in our local youth. Jerry Mitchell congratulates all of the nominees and winners! Enjoy images from this year's show© 2015 Stage Design by Joseph. This is official notice that Joseph retains all copyright to his designs and drawings. Ask permission before reproducing them.
I enjoyed assisting Scott Osborne and John Arnone on Stagger Lee by helping them make the model for the production. Watching two pros work together was an amazing experience! Along the way I made some friends, thanks guys. Enjoy watching the video! I am excited to show the set for this year's Column Awards! Tune in tonight to see the live announcements for this years nominees. Visit http://www.frontiertelevision.com for more information.
I'm designing this years DFW Column Awards! Going to the college to see how it is going to move into the Granville Arts Center. Click the play button below for more information. Thank you to The Column for reconizing Phantom in all aspects. It's nice to have your work seen and appreciated. Below are some of the nods we got on this amazing project! BEST SCENIC PROJECTIONS – PHANTOM – MainStage Irving Already my Best Musical, Phantom also gets the nod for its unique projection design. In this set, there was a largely empty stage representing a very complex Paris Opera House. Save for a couple of moving stairway platforms and an orchestra pit, used for entries and exits, the mise-en-scène of the Opera House had to be shown without large backsets. What was memorable were the multiple projections of Paris city scenes and the Opera House, both internals and the catacombs underneath. There were multiple projections on a back scrim, and some on a front, partially opaque, curtain, and in various places on what seemed like windows. These synchronized with the story, music, lighting and movement. They became part of the storytelling and showed the possibilities for great scenery within minimal stage settings. BEST MUSICAL – PHANTOM – MainStage Irving This OTHER version of Phantom by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit was based on Leroux’s story. Easy to confuse with Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, this production was visually stunning and musically intriguing with a new set of Phantom songs and a story of Erik’s, the Phantom, early life. Directed by Michael Serrecchia, Adam C. Wright (music) and Megan Kelly Bates (choreography), this cast melded an operatic musical with pure musical theater, with some actors trained in opera and others trained in musical theater. It was highly visual due to fantastically colorful costumes and a projection design that beat all. The acting was top notch, the singing, whether opera or musical theater, was pure in tone and musical phrasing. And this story filled in questions I’ve had for years about Erik. Some minor characters in Webber’s version are brought to the fore in this one, such as Gérard Carrière, the impresario who turned out to be Erik’s father. I recommend this production to any avowed Phantom fan. Patrick Jones – Phantom – MainStage Irving
On the opposite end of the musical spectrum, Phantom had a delicate, but equally strong, singer who could sing opera in the lead role. Patrick Jones played The Phantom, Erik. This was a spectacular operatic piece that combined opera and musical theater. Jones lit up this part. I heard sniffles and saw people wiping tears. He showed us the backstory of Erik, why was he masked, why so elusive, why so dangerous. His songs created tingles and shivers. He had duets with several actors that were fantastic! His duets with Kristen Lassiter as Christine Daaé and James Williams as Gérard Carrière, Eric’s father, were the kind of touching love songs you can walk away loving. None of these songs reached the popularity of Webber’s version, but they are wonderful songs that tell a different story and I loved them. |
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