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Nuys and Downtown, to a flashback of Dominique Dunne's murder trial and a quick pop to one of Leslie Abramson's earlier moments in court. Needless to say, it was off to the races. I quickly scouted what was available. It wasn't much, and none of it worked. We were quickly running out of time and realized that we would need to build at least one courtroom, but we really needed three different ones. Supervising Art Director Helen Harwell and Art Director Craig Keller both had great ideas on how to solve this conundrum. Since the production had limited stage space and limited time, we decided to build one large courtroom set that would have interchangeable walls and jury boxes. We designed three different back walls behind the judge's bench that hung off of chain motors and were rigged up to the perms. The set walls were literally stacked one right behind the other and hung just above the set, waiting to be swapped out. When the set needed a changeover, the wall could fly up in the air and G. ARRAIGNMENT COURTROOM. SET PHOTO. H. SANTA MONICA COURTROOM. SET PHOTO. I. VAN NUYS COURTROOM. SET PHOTO. F E G H i