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Chris Crabb ----- For Immediate Release Reed Productions Teams Up With MTV Music Television PORTLAND, ORE. - Aug. 27, 1999 – Portland-based scene shop R.A. Reed Productions’ work will be featured on live television September 9 when the MTV Video Music Awards show airs from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Reed Productions is responsible for building the massive three-dimensional set for the annual awards show. This year’s set, designed by George Tsypin, consists of a 60-foot-high red aluminum spiral that corkscrews 60 feet from downstage to upstage. A series of eight glass shards pierce through the spiral, each shard measuring four-feet-wide by 60-feet-long. In the midst of it all, attached to an open steel structure, rests a model of the head and crown of the Statue of Liberty. The head is made of foam and fiberglass and measures 23-feet-high from the chin to the crown and 25-feet-wide from crown to crown. A blue screen lines the back of the set, breaking up the elements. Reed Productions has provided staging jobs for MTV in the past, but this is the first scenic project for the company. This marks the fourth set Reed Productions has worked with Tsypin. The other three have included "The Flying Dutchman" (Los Angeles Music Center Opera - 1995); "Othello" (American Ballet Theatre - 1997); and "Peony Pavilion" (Vienna Festival - 1998). Reed Productions is located at 955 North Columbia Blvd., Building A. For more information call 503/735-0003. ### |
