For Broadway’s MJ: The Musical, which focuses on Michael Jackson’s 1992 Dangerous world tour, Derek McLane’s scenic elements are central to the plot. On the sides of the stage are 30 feet tall and 4 feet wide window walls which pivot to open and close, allowing actors and set pieces to move on and offstage. An upstage wall of windows that is 20 feet high and 27 feet wide, which splits in the center to move on and off stage on an automated track, completes the industrial warehouse feel…The show also has a significant mirror motif. Actors roll in large 3 ½ feet wide by 8 feet tall mirror panels, seven in all, which can be used in varying configurations… For the musical number “They Don’t Care About Us,” McLane envisioned shattered mirror pieces flying through the air. PRG created two intricate and delicate metal frames to hold 160 mirror shards made of Lexan.
