GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE

Awards

OVATIONS AWARD for Best Musical

OVATIONS AWARD SET DESIGN Nomination

"The beautiful yet minimalist set itself (designed by Yael Pardess and lit by Michael T. Gilliam) presents Gershwin as if he's caught in some kind of spirit world, as giant replicas of his sheet music covers and picture frames surround the composer in a state of archival freeze”  Michael L.Quintos

“The set contributes to this sense of mourning. The set designed by Yael Pardess, is quite lovely. Ms. Pardess uses an old desk piled high with papers, a warped mirror inside an ornate frame, dusty show posters, a parallel pair of heavy, antique stage curtains and reproductions of two paintings by Gershwin himself to suggest the faded memory of the 1920's. And she places them against a backdrop of false walls that curve with both a mathematical elegance and a suggestion of paper -- perhaps a musical score -- curling with age. The atmosphere is part funeral home, part limbo.” Bruce Weber/ New York Time

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