Something Rotten
Playhouse Stage Company
Director: Michael LoPorto
Scenic Designer: Jeff Perri
Props Designer: Lewis Bethune
Production Photos by Shawn Morgan
The big "Make on Omelette" number, featuring a Les Mis style painted omelette/egg flag.
Giant skull egg, Yorrick from Hamlet. Made with a decorative, plastic easter egg, wrapped in painters tape to emulate papier mache, and painted.
The "cracked" side of the egg.
Skull egg onstage, as used in the Omelette monologue.
Headshot/Playbill dance props for the song "It's a Musical." Created by photoshopping the actors actual headshots to look like pencil sketches, then printing and gluing to 8"x10" pieces of luann. On the reverse side, the company logo, photoshopped to look like an oil painting.
Prop sign, design and build. Lettering done with a chisel brush and flat brush on luaan.
Minstrel's throwable lute. The ordered lute was not going to arrive in time and didn't end up being correct.
Lute is thrown by one actor and caught by another about 6' behind. Made in in two days out of scrap materials, during tech. 1"x4" lumber, luann, foam, cardboard, hot glue, string and framing nails.
Lute onstage, before being thrown. A strap was provided, but ended up being cut.
Bow and arrows, made of PVC pipe, masking tape, string, cardboard, suade, dowels, feathers and tape.
Audience applause sign, design and construction.
Applause sign moodboard and sketches.
Shakespeare's writing desk, pulled and edited materials. Scattered papers were also glued to the desk so they could be seen when rotated.
