Maquette for Diamonds
Maker and role
Artist: Tony Straiges, American, born 1942
Year
1984
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Painted paper, wood, plastic, and cut-paper, with glitter and found objects
Measurements
6 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 22in (16.5 x 29.2 x 55.9cm)
Credit line
Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin
Accession number
TL1999.319
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Location
Theatre production
Musical revue with book by Roy Blount Jr. and John Weidman, and music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and others. Produced at Circle in the Square Theatre, New York, 1984.
Further information
As a successful show about baseball, Damn Yankees has had few successors. In Diamonds, Tony Straiges transformed a thrust stage into a baseball stadium, garnering an Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Set Design.
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