"The Tony-winning scenic designer had traveled to the French palace as research for the new musical The Queen of Versailles, and he wanted his designs to be as accurate as possible. In the end, Laffrey, whose Broadway credits include Maybe Happy Ending and Parade, settled for using an iPhone app to record the size of pilasters and mullioned mirrors."
"Laffrey may have been tasked with bringing the famous Baroque-style gallery to Broadway's St. James Theater, but The Queen of Versailles -which opens November 9-is not a story about Marie Antoinette or Louis XIV. The musical, inspired by Lauren Greenfield's award-winning 2012 documentary of the same name, tells the story of Florida residents Jackie and David Siegel, who planned to build a 90,000-square-foot replica of Versailles in an Orlando suburb. (For reference, the palace in France is a whopping 721,206 square feet.)"
Dane Laffrey researched Versailles to recreate the Hall of Mirrors for The Queen of Versailles on Broadway, using an iPhone app to record pilaster and mirror dimensions. The musical, opening November 9 at the St. James Theater, is inspired by Lauren Greenfield's 2012 documentary and follows Jackie and David Siegel's plan to build a 90,000-square-foot replica of Versailles in an Orlando suburb. The Siegels already lived in a 28,000-square-foot home with eight children and planned amenities including an ice-skating rink, baseball field, bowling alley, 30 bathrooms, and a British pub. Construction stalled after the 2008 financial crisis and the estate was listed for sale but never sold.
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