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Les Misérables Whiting Auditorium The familiar Whiting Auditorium in Flint, Michigan, was transported to Revolutionary France for the production of Les Misérables. The proscenium stage was dressed with pillars of gray brick around the frame. Fallen bricks laid around the bases of the pillars. Since the stage was too small for the set pieces to be hidden, the tech crew dressed the wings with soft scenery drops which looked like gray brick. The two pieces of the barricade were pushed to either side of the stage. The background and wing drops had false windows which were backlit during night scenes to give the illusion of life inside. The rotating stage, a trademark of this show, was made to look like cobblestones. I was impressed by how easily the actors moved as the floor spun beneath them. The set pieces for the different places were very simple. A few tables and chairs served well for the Thenardiers’