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Flemming Halby as the Friar, Alejandra Bronfman as Juliet and Thordal Christensen as Romeo in PNB's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Photo by David Cooper.
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Scene Shop
In the Beginning
PNB's Production Shop has been in existence since PNB's beginning in
1972. Their first home was in the boiler room of Home of the Good
Shepherd. There they stored Nutcracker sets and other minimal scenery
and lighting equipment. Most construction work at this time was done
in personal garages or company studios. The production staff also
relied heavily on friends in other theater companies around the city.
In 1980, they moved to their first warehouse, one half of the old
Ballard Ice Arena. It was primitive, but provided them with seven
thousand square feet in which to work.
In 1986, during the filming of Nutcracker, the shop moved to a new
warehouse in Fremont which was formerly home to a moving and storage
company. Initially, they occupied the ground floor, an improvement of
three thousand square feet over their previous location. In 1987,
they built the set for Romeo and Juliet with the help of Pierre Cayard
of the San Francisco Opera Shop. That production was such a huge
undertaking that it necessitated the acquisition of the upper floor of
the warehouse. This added space has made construction of such works as
Firebird, Cinderella, Carmina Burana, and A Midsummer Night's Dream
possible.
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| The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet set drawings by Designer Ming Cho Lee. |
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