How Broadway Sets the Stage for This Year’s Oscars

You’ll see a lot of Broadway at the Oscars this year.There are ties to the theater industry, of course, in nominees like Laurie Metcalf (“Lady Bird”), Denzel Washington (“Roman J.

Israel, Esq.”), and Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (“Coco”), all with projects now on Broadway (“Three Tall Women,” “Frozen”) or soon to start previews (“The Iceman Cometh”).

But Broadway is also all over the ceremony stage itself, in a set designed by theater regular Derek McLane.Last year the look was art deco.

This year? Crystals — 45 million of them, creating a geode-like proscenium.

“The theme is all about light and reflectivity,” McLane says in an interview about 10 days before the ceremony.

“This one is much more abstract.”It’s McLane’s sixth year designing the set at the Dolby Theatre — and he first got the gig thanks to his theater work.

He was brought aboard for the 2013 ceremony by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who at

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