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7 8 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 1 "Let's Talk Process" is Barry Glickman's opening line in The Prom—a broadway musical turned 2020 Netix movie. Basking in vanity on the opening night of Eleanor! The Musical inside the musical, Barry, the one-time Drama Desk Award-winning performer, elaborates while dancing and singing Let's talk process When I'm in character, I go insane I stagger, I stammer, I sob I make the audiences feel my pain. And if they don't leave depressed Then I've not done my ob I would say the Art Department followed suit with the same approach when creating the scenery for the movie The excitement of any large proect can be the am band creation that is a collection of talents coming together to rely on each other. Well...come together to climb on top of each other in the rain to sort out information or send oneliners that, wait, I didn't get that, can you send it to me and debate budgets, push, prod, insist, inquire, demand, scream, laugh, panic, create and make something great together. The proect had five months of preproduction and sixty days of shooting, a uid and evolving budget that sometimes included fringe, or strike, or equipment rental, or marquee lighting, or a shorter th Street, or a longer th Street or pull that set out altogether and budget the rest of the show without it and then try to save 0,000 G l i t t e r a n d b e G a y T H E P R O M B Y A D A M R O W E , A R T D I R E C T O R A. 44TH STREET SET. THIS SET WAS BUILT IN AN EMPTY PARKING LOT IN DOWNTOWN LA NEAR THE FLOWER MARKET. PHOTO BY DAMON LIEBOWITZ. B-E. THE PROCESS FOR MOST SETS BEGAN WITH MOOD BOARDS. JAMIE WALKER MCCALL MADE THESE BOARDS FOR EACH SET IN THE PROJECT AND THEY WERE INSTRUMENTAL TOOLS IN MEETINGS, SCOUTS AND DURING THE BUILD PROCESS. A