Stage Sets

Sorry to confuse you, but this "Stage Sets" section of my Art Studios site has become so huge, with so many of my different shows illustrated, that I have published a separate web site dedicated to designing and painting stage sets. This is a source site for those interested in painting scenery for amateur musicals, light operas and pantomimes. Find it on:- www.set-painting.com

Here you will discover photos and drawings of ...Aladdin (6 versions); Ali Baba (2 versions); Annie; Annie Get Your Gun; Anything Goes; Babes in the Wood; The Boyfriend; Brigadoon; Calamity Jane (2 versions); A Christmas Carol; Cinderella (6 Versions); Dick Whittington (5 versions); Fiddler on the Roof (2 versions); The Gondoliers; Jack and the Beanstalk (4 versions); The King and I (Including the gestation of a backcloth); Kiss Me Kate; Lilac Time; Maid of the Mountains; Merry Widow (2 versions); My Fair Lady; A Nativity (3 versions); Oklahoma! (5 versions); Oliver (4 versions); Pirates of Penzance; Robin Hood; Showboat; Snow White (3 versions); Sound of Music (2 versions); South Pacific; White Horse Inn; and the Wizard of Oz (3 Versions). There is also a Question and Answer section and a short extract from my (unpublished) book."Scenery Painting for the Amateur Stage"

(Remember to close the separate window once you have finished with it)

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I am in my mid seventies now and started painting scenery for amateur productions when I was about thirteen years old. I belonged to a very go-ahead youth club ( Wimborne Youth Group ) that, for the first few years of its existence, specialised in putting on shows, pantomimes and concert tours. That was where I first got involved in making and painting scenery.

I have designed and painted sets and scenic backcloths for many Northern Ireland Amateur Companies over the years including :- Lisnagarvey Operatic (13 years) Portrush Music Society (11 years) Coleraine Provincial Players (14 years); Ballycastle Choral Society (10 years); Newcastle Glee Singers; Ulster Operatic Society Belfast; Lyric Light Opera Company Belfast; Cross and Passion College Ballycastle; Bushmills PTA. Leaney PTA; Ballymoney Primary School; Macosquin Primary School; Ballywillan Drama Group; Newbridge Musical Society, Co. Kildare; Merlins' Childrens' Theatre, Grimsby; Dominic Graham School of Dancing Coleraine; Garvagh High School; Hullabaloo Children's Theatre, and The Mill Summer Youth Group (Newtownabbey).