Designing Broadway: Set Designer David Gallo Honors History for The Mountaintop
Translating an iconic real-life location is a test for a scenic designer, and The Mountaintop’s David Gallo went to great lengths to do the job right. To recreate the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. spent his last night before his assassination in 1968, the Tony-winning set and projection designer amassed what he calls “the world’s largest library of details” on this historic hote…