French Windows (doors)

When I finally show you the windows that are the necessary for the set for Checking Out, you are going to be shocked. You will have the same reaction that the first-time visitor to the apartment had in Scene 1: “My word! … I didn’t know they had flats like these in New York any more.”

It is an anomaly. You have to know a lot about the architectural history of New York City to place the apartment in Checking Out geographically and in time. It’s time period and those windows, in that condition, are gone. For anyone younger than 100, you need to do a lot of research to get it right. I forgive 22 year old me for not getting it.

Prayer for the French Republic, which just closed on Broadway, is not so hard to get right. Quick! Don’t scroll down! What do the windows in a Parisian apartment look like? Nailed it! I don’t even need to look inside your head. You thought the same thing the rest of us did.