Scenic Artist characters on tv and film – for fun

[Tina Yager]

Do you guys have favorite tv and film references about scenic artists? For example the episode Modern Family where Luke paints the set for the school play and his family keeps blowing it off as unimportant. Or that 3 seconds when Daya Diaz on Orange is the New Black wistfully ponders aloud if painting for movies could just be a real job.

I’m sure there are hundreds of fun momentary scenic art references out there. What is your favorite?

Tina

[Angelique Powers]

It may not be a favorite, but it was the first one that popped into my mind.
Newsies- the Disney movie of the recent revival of the Broadway play.
The main character has a side gig as a Scenic- AND THEY PAY HIM FOR IT!

In the second act they show him actually working on a painting. I love and hate the scene for all the things wrong.  (Biggest was the ultramarine blue he was using didn’t come on to the scene for another 10 years- cause I’m a nerd and I new that)

 

[Lili Lennox]

Jessica Fletcher, in an episode in the 3rd season of Murder She Wrote (“Stage Struck”) reminisces how she was a scene painter for the summer stock shows at a little playhouse outside of Cabot Cove!

[CDana]

In Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, a professional scene painter is part of the well-intentioned but totally misguided modification  of the family home for an amateur theatrical while the patriarch is out of town.

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