Setting the Stage : What We Do, How We Do It, and Why / David Hays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hays, David, 1930- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.

Theaters.

Set designers--United States--Biography.

Set designers.

Hays, David, 1930---Anecdotes.

Hays, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The life and work of a stage designer who worked with Kazan and Balanchine.

Contents:

Cover

Setting the Stage

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1 Read This

2 Starting Out

3 Long Day's Journey into O'Neill

4 Getting the Idea

5 London, the Glorious City

6 Yale and Green Mansions

7 Boston Again, and Tanglewood

8 Painting Lessons from a Virtuoso

9 New York

10 Broadway Briefly

11 The Exploding Chicken

12 Sir Tyrone

13 The Light That Failed

14 "Gadg" and Getting Fired

15 Designing for Garson Kanin, and What It's All About

16 The Pipe in the Drawer

17 Maureen and More

18 Good Things and Not-So-Good Things

19 HUGHIE, and Strange Behavior

20 Two Designers and Survival

21 One Night Only

22 Repertory, Classics, a Falling Out

23 Too Much Control

24 Musical Disaster and Success

25 More Musicals and a Fantastic Preview

26 We Knew Famous People

27 Concrete at Last

28 Opera Tales

29 My Sad Ending with José

30 Conceiving a Production

31 Violetta and the Parade

32 First Steps into Another World

33 More Ballet

34 The Grand Kabuki

35 Japan Again

36 Turntables and Puppets

37 Mr. B

38 Finale

39 Encore

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8195-7722-7

OCLC:

983466256