Amazing choreography, show-stopping tap routines, and masterful musical lyrics make 42nd Street The Musical a classic and beloved Broadway musical. Musical theater organizations across the country choose this musical to make their own.
Based on the 1932 novel by Bradford Ropes and the subsequent 1933 Hollywood film adaptation, 42nd Street was awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Choreography and the Olivier Award for Best Musical among many other accolades during its extended run on Broadway and in the West End of London.
Backdrops By Charles Stewart offers a wide array of backdrops appropriate for your next showing of 42nd Street. We have 57 options for your adaptation of this classic backstage story that follows the lives and careers of actors during a dark and stressful time in American history – The Great Depression.
A Little History of 42nd Street The Musical
42nd Street chronicles the life of dancers and actors backstage in a Broadway theater during the 1930s after the 1929 Stock Market Crash and during the financial strain of the Great Depression. Focus is put on the main character, Peggy Sawyer, a young girl from a small town in middle America who hopes to fulfill her lifelong dreams of making it on Broadway.
While the show is set during the 1930s in New York City, the musical itself shows off the glitz and glamor often associated with a big-budget Broadway musical; a direct contrast to the life of many Americans just outside the walls of the theater.
From the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco to the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine, audiences have delighted in this tap-dancing and vocal masterpiece.
Backdrops for 42nd Street
Creating the set and atmosphere of any musical falls to the light and sound engineers, stage managers and prop masters. Backdrops By Charles Stewart offers over 50 backdrops that will assist these experts in setting the stage for a successful performance of 42nd Street at your theater.
Most scenes for 42nd Street The Musical focus on areas of a typical theater such as the dressing rooms, stage, actor dressing areas, and production crew quarters as well as the streets of the city and neighboring cities. Here are some of our most popular 42nd Street-designed backdrops that could help your production come to life.
Backstage
This Bare Stage Backdrop shows a brick wall with a theater door, staircase, catwalk, and scenery flats leaning against the wall. This backdrop measures 18 x 24 and is currently available for rent.
NYC & Broadway Street
Nothing says Broadway more than the marquee and the streets of the Big Apple. This Broadway Marquis Backdrop #2320 displays a New York City street with different Broadway theater marquees aglow.
Or, this NYC Skyline Backdrop could help set the stage with this nightime New York skyline with purple sky and stars.
To set the mood as the characters reveal themselves, this Moonlight Serenade Backdrop #2338 shows a beautiful night sky with stars, moon, and cloud cover.
To view all the backdrops available for 42nd Street The Musical visit our show suggestions pages. Break a leg!