Pottstown designer awaits Tony Awards night
To create the set for the Broadway smash Newsies, Pottstown resident Tobin Ost served multiple masters: a choreographer who needed space for his performers to dance, a director who envisioned a jungle-gym effect, a writer who moved the action from scene to scene, and producers who worried about the box office.So the scenic designer crafted a tiered, tic-tac-toe metalscape that separates, recedes and rotates. Performe…