Company
New York framed as a landscape of longing in Company, pairing coupled buildings, a lone brick structure, and a color-shifting skyline to reflect connection, solitude, and modern adulthood.
- Year
- 2019
- Company
- University of California Irvine
- Project
- Musical Theatre
- Location
- Irvine, CA
Company grew out of my own observations of New York: pale exterior walls, layers of old trim, fire escapes, stoops, and buildings that felt inhabited by lives just out of reach. At UC Irvine, that sense of exterior life became the heart of the scenic design.
Two coupled buildings framed one side of the stage, linked like partnership, while a lone red-brick building stood apart to reflect Bobby's solitude. Ladders, stairs, and fire escapes created both physical movement and emotional distance.
Backlit windows in purples, pinks, and blues suggested private lives behind the architecture. By treating New York as a landscape of longing, the scenic design gave Bobby's isolation a physical shape without closing the city down.
Creative team
- Book By
- George Furth
- Director
- Eli Simon
- Choreographer
- Allison Eversol
- Music Director
- Lex Leigh
- Scenic Designer
- Brandon PT Davis
- Costume Designer
- Cassie DeFile
- Lighting Designer
- Jacob P. Brinkman
- Sound Designer
- Garrett Gagnon
- Music and Lyrics
- Stephen Sondheim
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