Scutt set up the theater so the audience enters through a neon-lit alleyway rather than through the main entrance. “For me, design is about how the story is meeting the public,” he says. “I want to open up new possibilities of theater-going.” Coming out of the pandemic, he felt the need to celebrate “the joy of being together — a group of people experiencing something alive.”
The arch also features images of a blue comb and hat, a golden key and a scarlet drop of blood — symbols derived from a plaque on the theater’s cornerstone, dating to 1925, which says, “Within these walls the human mind shall once again celebrate with gaiety, with pity and with truth the divine pageant of the human soul.” As Scutt thinks of it, “That’s ‘Cabaret,’ full stop.”
Source: Theater - nytimes.com
