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re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows

Posted by: BrianJ 07:14 am EST 01/19/15
In reply to: re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows - Singapore/Fling 01:13 am EST 01/19/15

Wondering which of the elements of the original production of SHE LOVES ME you felt he recycled? (I didn't see the original.)


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re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows

Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:01 pm EST 01/19/15
In reply to: re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows - BrianJ 07:14 am EST 01/19/15

The design, primarily.


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re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows

Posted by: AlanScott 01:45 pm EST 01/19/15
In reply to: re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows - Singapore/Fling 01:01 pm EST 01/19/15

Well, he hired Tony Walton, who had co-produced the 1964 London production that used the original design of the Eckarts. Which in photos of the original Broadway production looks a lot better than what was in the Ellis production, but that was doubtless due to financial constraints, not to Walton being a lesser designer than the Eckarts.


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re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows

Posted by: BrianJ 01:11 am EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows - AlanScott 01:45 pm EST 01/19/15

I wonder, though - unless you're gonna impose a bold, overarching new "concept design" (for want of a better term) like Nicholas Hytner and Bob Crowley did for Carousel - how different are the designs for a classic book musical like that gonna be? And with She Loves Me mostly taking place inside and outside a fairly naturalistic shop, and the pace of the show demanding a set able to rapidly transition between the interior and the exterior... I don't necessarily see it as Ellis "recycling" so much as just doing what made the most sense (but maybe I'm only saying that cause the word "recycling" carries a negative connotation in my head when it comes to art).


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