Something Rotten
Playhouse Stage Company
Director: Michael Lo Porto
Scenic Designer: Jeff Perri
Props Designer: Lewis Bethune

The big "Make on Omelette" number, featuring a Les Mis style painted omelette/egg flag. Production photo by Shawn Morgan

Giant skull egg, Yorrick from Hamlet. Made with a decorative, plastic easter egg, wrapped in painters tape to emulate papier mache, and painted.

The "cracked" side of the egg.

Skull egg onstage, as used in the Omelette monologue. Production photo by Shawn Morgan

Headshot/Playbill dance props for the song "It's a Musical." Created by photoshopping the actors actual headshots to look like pencil sketches, then printing and gluing to 8"x10" pieces of luann. On the reverse side, the company logo, photoshopped to look like an oil painting. Production photo by Shawn Morgan

Sign painting and lettering, designed by J. Perri, paint charge M. Dunlow.

Sign lettering, designed by J. Perri. Shown her various market signs, done freehand with acrylic paint and a chisel brush.

Some of the signs onstage, as well as other non-lettered signs. Production photo by Shawn Morgan

Small show drop, sketched lettering done with a round brush.

Prop sign, design and build. Lettering done with a chisel brush and flat brush on luaan.

CUT show drop, Omelette the Musical, block sketched and painted with chisel brush.

Full flat calligraphy, Old Theatre, chalk sketched and painted, on the ground, with a chisel brush. Production photo by Shawn Morgan

Minstrel's throwable lute. The ordered lute was not going to arrive in time and didn't end up being correct.

Lute is thrown by one actor and caught by another about 6' behind. Made in in two days out of scrap materials, during tech. 1"x4" lumber, luann, foam, cardboard, hot glue, string and framing nails.

Lute onstage, before being thrown. A strap was provided, but ended up being cut.

Shakespeare's writing desk, pulled and edited materials. Scattered papers were also glued to the desk so they could be seen when rotated. Production photo by Shawn Morgan

Bow and arrows, made of PVC pipe, masking tape, string, cardboard, suade, dowels, feathers and tape.

Audience applause sign, design and construction.

Applause sign moodboard and sketches.