File:Cradle Will Rock set design sketch portal 2.jpg

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Scenic design sketch of one of the three great velour portals created for the 1937 Federal Theatre Project 891 production The Cradle Will Rock at Maxine Elliott's Theatre

  • Producer John Houseman, Run-through (1972):
    For America's first proletarian musical, Orson [Welles] had devised an extravagant scenic scheme that called for a triple row of three-dimensional velour portals between which narrow glass-bottomed fluorescent platforms, loaded with scenery and props, slid smoothly past each other as the scene shifted back and forth from the night court to a street corner, a church, a drugstore, a hotel lobby, a faculty room, a doctor's office and the front lawn of the finest house in Steeltown U.S.A. [page 248]
    By the end of May our three great portals were in place and our illuminated glass-bottomed floats were cruising across the stage, pursued by panting players, trailing yards of black writhing cable in their wake. [page 254]
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Federal Theatre Project

  • "Ed Schruers" is written on the reverse side. Edwin J. Schreurs (1903–1994) was credited for costume and set design for this production and others presented by the Federal Theatre Project.

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This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).

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