24°
Largely produced on Long Island, “The Gilded Age,” starring Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon, features New York City in 1882 after a young Marian Brook, played by Louisa Jacobson, moves from rural Pennsylvania to the big city.
The show was set to premiere on HBO at 9 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24, produced and written by Julian Fellowes of “Downton Abbey” fame. The nine-episode series is scheduled to run through Monday, March 21.
Some of the shooting of the show took place on a set built on the soundstage at the Museum of American Armor in Bethpage, including the family’s grand staircase and several street scenes that were filmed on a backlot on Long Island.
Among the sets built on Long Island include multiple rooms of the family’s mansion, complete with period-appropriate fabrics and patterns, as well as other interiors that were used to recreate Manhattan’s East Side in the 19th century.
Other sets were constructed in Rhode Island, the Hudson Valley, and upstate New York.
Bob Shaw, the show’s production designer, said to the New York Times that compared to past HBO series he had worked on, including “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” “This is the biggest build I’ve ever done.”
“We kept drawing and doing illustrations, and they kept saying yes,” he said. “You draw a grand staircase, and you’re waiting for someone to say, ‘Well, how many times are they going to go up the stairs?’ And that never happened.”
Click here to follow Daily Voice Massapequa and receive free news updates.
