CPH eight designs in two minutes

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  Hi, My name is Robert Mark Morgan.

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  I'm a scenic designer based in ST Louis, Missouri, and

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  I have done eight shows over 11 years in Cleveland

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  Playhouse, and I was asked to talk about all eight

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  of them within two minutes.

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  Let's do this.

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  Number one Glass Menagerie Beautiful Show 2008 Directed by Michael

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  Bloom Really beautiful model here.

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  Ah, quarter scale model and the final design.

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  Really Lots of beautiful Scream painting.

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  Number two Bill W Dr Bob.

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  This show was set, Talked about Alcoholics Anonymous and set

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  in Ohio and New York, and we decided to surround

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  set with 1600 bottles.

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  1600 bottles were collecting bottles for days.

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  Number three.

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  Emma Jane Austen Directed by Peter Amster Beautiful, beautiful set.

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  Lots of moving parts panels.

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  Very Adam style.

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  Look to it.

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  There's the model.

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  There's the final design, gorgeous work and the old Drewry

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  Theater number four Whipping man.

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  And this was when we moved to the out cult

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  Ah theater and the first time I had a chance

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  to work in that space.

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  Deep thrust space meaning audience on three sides said in

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  an old burned out mansion in 18 65 in Richmond,

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  Virginia. We had to cut an actor's leg off every

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  night for that one.

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  So that one look like a ah, Number five Christmas

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  story. I've done this show seven different cities, including Cleveland.

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  Here's a white model.

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  Why do you get a lot in design?

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  This is before any color is added.

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  The white model and then when I like to say

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  is there's the quarter and scale model in the full

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  scale model right there in this theater.

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  Number six.

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  The Diary of Anne Frank.

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  I did this one just a little while ago.

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  We decided to turn the out cult into a space

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  that encapsulated the audience in fake barbed wire.

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  So ah, we had SS troops marching around.

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  There's what that set look like.

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  Beautifully lit, beautiful, beautiful set number seven sweat that was

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  also in the out cult.

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  This one had Ah, bar on two sides, basically exterior

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  and interior bar on revolve in a sliding wall.

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  All kinds of moving tricks and parts, what that model

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  look like and what that set looked like and then

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  finally into the breaches.

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  This is written by George Brandt.

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  I've done this in three different cities.

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  Beautiful said as well.

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  We really try to encapsulate an old backstage look.

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  Used a lot of old Cleveland Playhouse scenery, old drops

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  and things like that.

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  And that's what that said look like when it's all

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  said and done.

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  That's it.

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  Two minutes, two minutes and 15 seconds.

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  Thanks, bye.