When MUSEUMS are built these days, architects, DIRECTORS, and trustees SEEM most concerned about social space: places to have parties, EAT dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
Read MoreWhen I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the DOORS were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the PROPS - and then I would hire the DESIGNER. I TOOK charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows LOOKED wonderful.
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