Nikolai and the Others

May 6th, 2013  Posted by admin
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This evening our latest Off Broadway project, Nikolai and the Others, opens at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. We were happy to have the opportunity to work with set designer, Marsha Ginsberg, on this exciting world premiere and hope that the company has a great Opening Night and a successful run!

You can find a number of production photos for the project in our portfolio, but for more information on Marsha Ginsberg’s inspiration for the project head over to Lincoln Center’s blog: http://www.lct.org/showBlog.htm?id=216.

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Tony Award Nominations

May 9th, 2011  Posted by admin
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Tony Awards Nominations 2011 Announced!

Nominations include:

Best Musical – The Scottsboro Boys

Best Revival of a Musical – Anything Goes

Best Revival of a Musical – How to Succeed…

Best Scenic Design of a Musical – Derek McLane – Anything Goes

See the complete list of nominees at:

http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html

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Global Scenic’s New Kabuki Rig

April 27th, 2011  Posted by admin
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Global Scenic Services has a new Kabuki rig to rent (or buy)! The new rig is pneumatic actuator controlled and can support just about anything you need to drop. With a simple rolling action, let your goods fall to the floor perfectly every time. With a single shaft rotation, every point will release at the same time, every time!

Check out our video below!

Click here to see the video

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“The… elegant sets designed by Derek McLane, among his most poetic and effective work.”

April 1st, 2011  Posted by admin
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Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq

Source: NY Times

By: CHARLES ISHERWOOD

An exotic beast is stalking Broadway. No, I’m not referring specifically to the man-eating title character played by Robin Williams in “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” I’m talking about the play itself: Rajiv Joseph’s smart, savagely funny and visionary new work of American theater, whose presence on Broadway invites fanciful comparison to the titular beast. A Pulitzer Prize finalist last year, “Bengal Tiger” is like a majestic cat serenely striding through a litter of cute-as-can-be kittens ready for their YouTube close-ups.

“Bengal Tiger,” which opened Thursday night at the Richard Rodgers Theater, asks us to think and feel like adults, absorbing the dark absurdities in Mr. Joseph’s microcosmic vision of the chaos that reigned in Baghdad shortly after the invasion of Iraq. Its quiet urge to attend to the moral problems that beset our world — not to mention the existential mysteries man has pondered for centuries — stands in stark contrast to the more prevalent invitations blaring from Broadway marquees: to be serenaded by sweet nostalgia or to Facebook-friend our inner teenager. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sundial at Shakespeare Theatre to be Unveiled Friday

October 22nd, 2010  Posted by admin
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The new sundial on the Shakespeare Theatre will be unveiled Friday, Oct. 22, at 4 p.m., during a ceremony open to the public.

Town officials will welcome Timex Group USA Senior Vice President of Technology Lou Galie for the ceremony. Timex Group USA of Middlebury has agreed to pay for the construction and installation of a replica of the original timepiece.

The new sundial is being designed, manufactured and installed by Global Scenic Services of Bridgeport. Timex is consulting on the design and engineering for the timekeeping functionality.

A prototype of the design was recently tested by Councilman Matt Catalano (R-3rd) and David Griffith, communications manager for Timex Group USA.

Griffith said it is the only sundial he knows of that was created by Timex.

The original sundial, a gift from Timex at the theater’s opening in 1956, will be preserved and displayed at the Timex Museum in Waterbury, according to a press release from Mayor John A. Harkins.

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Life Lessons, and Sweet Sirens Song of The-a-tuh

June 28th, 2010  Posted by admin
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By Ben Brantley

The title is “The Grand Manner,” but the style of A. R. Gurney’s latest play, which opened Sunday night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is definitely on the cozy side. A homey needlepoint embroidery on Mr. Gurney’s encounter as a prep school student with the fabled American actress Katharine Cornell, this fantasy memoir allows the author’s younger, provincial self a seductive first glimpse of a world where being merely life-size isn’t enough.

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2010 Tony Award Nominations

May 10th, 2010  Posted by admin
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES

BEST MUSICAL

American Idiot

Fela!

Memphis

Million Dollar Quartet

BEST PLAY

In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

Next Fall

Red

Time Stands Still

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

Finian’s Rainbow

La Cage aux Folles

A Little Night Music

Ragtime

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Fences

Lend Me a Tenor

The Royal Family

A View From the Bridge

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Everyday Rapture, Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott

Fela!, Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones

Memphis, Joe DiPietro

Million Dollar Quartet, Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATER

The Addams Family, Music and Lyrics: Andrew Lippa

Enron, Music: Adam Cork, Lyrics: Lucy Prebble

Fences, Music: Branford Marsalis

Memphis, Music: David Bryan, Lyrics: Joe DiPietro and David Bryan

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Jude Law, Hamlet

Alfred Molina, Red

Liev Schreiber, A View From the Bridge

Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane

Denzel Washington, Fences

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Viola Davis, Fences

Valerie Harper, Looped

Linda Lavin, Collected Stories

Laura Linney, Time Stands Still

Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Kelsey Grammer, La Cage aux Folles

Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises

Douglas Hodge, La Cage aux Folles

Chad Kimball, Memphis

Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Kate Baldwin, Finian’s Rainbow

Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture

Montego Glover, Memphis

Christiane Noll, Ragtime

Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

David Alan Grier, Race

Stephen McKinley Henderson, Fences

Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts

Stephen Kunken, Enron

Eddie Redmayne, Red

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Maria Dizzia, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family

Jessica Hecht, A View From the Bridge

Scarlett Johansson, A View From the Bridge

Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family

Robin De Jesus, La Cage aux Folles

Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian’s Rainbow

Levi Kreis, Million Dollar Quartet

Bobby Steggert, Ragtime

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Barbara Cook, Sondheim on Sondheim

Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises

Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music

Karine Plantadit, Come Fly Away

Lilias White, Fela!

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY

Michael Grandage, Red

Sheryl Kaller, Next Fall

Kenny Leon, Fences

Gregory Mosher, A View From the Bridge

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

Christopher Ashley, Memphis

Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime

Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles

Bill T. Jones, Fela!

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises

Bill T. Jones, Fela!

Lynne Page, La Cage aux Folles

Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS

Jason Carr, La Cage aux Folles

Aaron Johnson, Fela!

Jonathan Tunick, Promises, Promises

Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY

John Lee Beatty, The Royal Family

Alexander Dodge, Present Laughter

Santo Loquasto, Fences

Christopher Oram, Red

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Marina Draghici, Fela!

Christine Jones, American Idiot

Derek McLane, Ragtime

Tim Shortall, La Cage aux Folles

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY

Martin Pakledinaz, Lend Me a Tenor

Constanza Romero, Fences

David Zinn, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

Catherine Zuber, The Royal Family

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Marina Draghici, Fela!

Santo Loquasto, Ragtime

Paul Tazewell, Memphis

Matthew Wright, La Cage aux Folles

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY

Neil Austin, Hamlet

Neil Austin, Red

Mark Henderson, Enron

Brian MacDevitt, Fences

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Kevin Adams, American Idiot

Donald Holder, Ragtime

Nick Richings, La Cage aux Folles

Robert Wierzel, Fela!

BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY

Acme Sound Partners, Fences

Adam Cork, Enron

Adam Cork, Red

Scott Lehrer, A View From the Bridge

BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Jonathan Deans, La Cage aux Folles

Robert Kaplowitz, Fela!

Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen, A Little Night Music

Dan Moses Schreier, Sondheim on Sondheim

SPECIAL TONY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATER

Alan Ayckbourn

Marian Seldes

REGIONAL THEATER TONY AWARD

Eugene O’Neill Theater Center

ISABELLE STEVENSON AWARD

David Hyde Pierce

TONY HONORS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATER

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York

B.H. Barry

Tom Viola

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‘Memphis’ and ‘The Royal Family’ Lead Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations

May 4th, 2010  Posted by admin
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The Broadway musical “Memphis” and the recent revival of “The Royal Family” were the most recognized productions at Monday’s announcement of the nominations for the Outer Critics Circle awards, edging the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical “The Scottsboro Boys” and the critically reviled“Addams Family.”

“Memphis” received seven nominations including outstanding new Broadway musical, and Manhattan Theater Club’s revival of “Royal Family” also received seven, including outstanding revival of a play.

“The Scottsboro Boys,” which was presented Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater and is transferring to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis this summer, received six, including outstanding new Off-Broadway musical. “The Addams Family” received five nominations, for set design, actor (Nathan Lane), actress (Bebe Neuwirth), featured actor (Kevin Chamberlin) and featured actress (Carolee Carmelo), as did “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” including new Off-Broadway musical and director of a musical (Alex Timbers).

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Derek McLane & Ragtime nominated for Drama Desk

May 3rd, 2010  Posted by admin
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Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning actors Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime, Man of La Mancha) and Cady Huffman (The Producers, Will Rogers Follies) announced the nominations for the 55th annual Drama Desk Awards May 3 at 9:30 AM at the New York Friars Club.

The short-lived Broadway revival ofRagtime and the recent Off-Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys each received nine nominations apiece, the most of any productions of the season.

Tony winner Patti LuPone will host the May 23 awards ceremony at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. (The nominees will receive their Nomination Certificates at a cocktail reception May 6 in Manhattan.)

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Discovering ‘Promises’ in Modernism

May 3rd, 2010  Posted by admin
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“THAT GIRL” flirts with “Mad Men” in the set design for the new Broadway revival of the 1968 musical “Promises, Promises,” a frisky tale about trysting in the ’60s that stars Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth.

The sets — which range from an office building and a Chinese restaurant to a dive bar and a bachelor pad — are the work of Scott Pask, whose period-savvy creations strike a balance between kitsch and Le Corbusier. (Mr. Pask’s twin brother, Bruce, the director of men’s fashion for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, designed the jewel-toned and slimly silhouetted costumes.)

Scott Pask’s other recent work on Broadway has also reinterpreted the look and feel of decades past, from the 1940s (“Pal Joey”) to the 1980s (“9 to 5”). With “Promises, Promises,” as he did for the current revival of “Hair,” Mr. Pask re-evaluates the colors, shapes and interiors of the early 1960s with nods to Modernist furniture design, Abstract Expressionism, popular television shows and films, and International Style architecture.

Before the show opened, Mr. Pask, 43, spoke about some of those influences in an interactive feature.

NY Times

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