Local Native Debuts On Broadway
BALTIMORE (WJZ) --- A young man from the Towson area has just had his debut on Broadway, but not as an actor on stage. Mike Schuh shows us how Tim Mackabe designed what the audience sees on stage.
Schuh: "So every time you start a new show, you're presented with this, 40 by 40 feet with nothing in it."
Mackabe: "Yep, every rehearsal and design project starts the exact same way."
Schuh: "The stage is right below us here. Let's go down. I'm going to snap my fingers. Wow, I mean this is all you."
Mackabe: "Yes, this is all us. We've been spending weeks building and painting and carving and finding the furniture and bringing it all together."
Mackabe imagines it and puts it to paper.
"We're in the study of Sydney Brules Connecticut cottage," Mackabe said.
Deathtrap is Mackabe's third set design for Everyman Theatre. He's a local who's made good.
"It's great to be back, doing the things I always did In Baltimore," Mackabe said.
Schuh: "So shoutout your local schools."
"Pinegrove Elementary, Pinegrove Middle and then I went to Carver," Mackabe said.
After Carver, Mackabe attended undergrad and grad school at Yale.
He's had a busy week as his latest creation is being built. He celebrated a huge moment over the weekend.
"I just opened the Broadway production of Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper last week," Mackabe said.
Schuh: "That's you?"
Mackabe: "That's me. I designed that, yeah."
Schuh: "You look at that set and it's Tim?"
Mackabe: "Yes, I hope so. It's really exciting. You know I got to take some family up to see it. I started the week here in Baltimore with this show and I went up in the middle of the week, opened that show, came back and we finished checking this show a couple days ago. Both shows are equally exciting."
Even more exciting days may be ahead.
Mackabe: "It's nice to do a show on that level so people think you can do a show on that level. It's a little bit about perception so now that you've done it, maybe the next hire will be easier because now he's got that experience."
The Everyman Theatre's production of "Deathtrap" begins tomorrow and runs through Jan. 11. His other production on Broadway, "Elephant Man," starring Bradley Cooper, runs through Feb. 15.
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