May 1, 2007
Features
You Say You Want A Revolution?
All you need is love. And now, there is more to Love. The Beatle-maniacal experience started by Cirque du Soleil's Love and its top-selling soundtrack...
Back to Basics
Christina Aguilera has been strutting her dirty stuff all winter and spring for her Back to Basics tour in support of her album of the same name, which...
Visual Phenomena
It's been a really bad night. The temperature's down in the negative numbers, there are ice flows everywhere, and the ship that was supposed to be accompanying...
Remember Stanley McCandless?
Jean Rosenthal reportedly referred to Stanley McCandless as the granddaddy of us all as lighting designers. Beyond the legacy that McCandless (1897-1967)...
Go
LEDs On Ice
When Chauvet's marketing coordinator, Ben Dickmann, got the call from Mark Casadei, specialty lighting designer for Ice Alaska, the yearly World Ice Art...
Five Questions:Eurovision's Mikki Kunttu and Ola Melzig
Ola, as Eurovision Song Contest's production manager for lighting, video, and rigging (or production damager, according to Mikki), and Mikki, as lighting...
Curtains: Bullets Over Broadway
Curtains, the latest Broadway outing by the legendary Kander & Ebb, has all the usual suspects: an all-star ensemble portraying the minions of a Western...
LDI 2007 Offers Concierge Service
To give LDI visitors an additional level of comfort as they navigate Orlando, FL, and the showfloor, LDI 2007 now offers a Concierge Service. The LDI...
Spamalot On The Strip
Spamalot, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical in 2005, is the latest Broadway hit to settle in Las Vegas in the requisite 90-minute, no intermission Sin...
As The World Turns:Dying City
Lincoln Center Theatre's production of Christopher Shinn's new play, Dying City, directed by James Macdonald, took place on a square platform in the center...
Who's Doing What
Kevin Bye designed lighting for Elton John's 60th birthday party at Madison Square Garden in New York, which also commemorated the artist's 60th sold-out...
Visual Pop: Lighting Music and Lyrics
When the producers of Music and Lyrics approached BML/Blackbird Theatrical Services to provide all the lighting and rigging for the film's concert sequences,...
Purdue University's Education In A Box
Purdue University's Division of Theatre has acquired Thematics' modelBOX, a customized and scaled Lightbox specifically tailored to architecturally mimic...
A Star Rises At USITT: Designer John Horan
Rising Star winner, LD, and set designer John Horan found USITT this year. The Tharon Musser conversation will and has already changed the way I approach...
Ordinary People: Common People
Milwaukee Ballet's Common People premiered at the Premieres of Passionate Dance at The Marcus Center, featuring music by Ben Folds with William Shatner...
PR Lighting's New Hi-Tech Science Park
Live Design was onsite to report on more than 800 people attending the recent inauguration ceremony for PR Lighting Ltd.'s new Hi-Tech Science Park in...
Envision
Business: The Gentle Art of Negotiation
I'm sure that at one point in your life you've heard something at least close to one of the following statements: Don't concern yourself with the sticker....
Build
Making An Impression: Part 1
Planning the layout and choosing the carrying case for a design-tech portfolio can be a very exciting project; it creates the opportunity to showcase...
How I Did That: Pasadena POPS
On this September night, with a full moon rising and stars twinkling above, 2,000 eager concert-goers give themselves over to Maestra Rachael Worby and...
Problem/Solution: Test Tubing
For at least a year, lighting designer Bob Dickinson has been experimenting with low resolution LED technology, upping his inventory of Element Labs Versa...
Tech
Communication Is Key
The structural engineer is a key member of any renovation or new construction of a theatre or performing arts facility. In a project of any scope, it...
Product Of The Month: TiMax Track the Actors
Achieving stereo reproduction in the theatre has always been a chancy proposition. The traditional approach usually involves creating the illusion of...
Product Of The Month: Wireless Solution W-DMX Range
Are you Wireless? This is the simple question that you will find on the products and brochures of Wireless Solution Sweden AB, aimed at making the lives...
PRODUCT NEWS
Product Focus: Consoles grandMA pico MA Lighting The grandMA pico, specifically designed for theatre use, is similar to the grandMA micro, but with hardware...
Editor's Note
A Master Plan
It's that time of year again I feel like I start many a letter that way when we eagerly await the Broadway Master Classes. Under the way exciting category...
Loadout
Loadout: Sketchbook: Santo Loquasto, Costume Designer
Santo Loquasto has to be one of the busiest designers in the world. Theatre, dance, opera, movies he does it all! He's been nominated for 14 Tony Awards,...
